{"id":745,"date":"2022-09-30T16:24:34","date_gmt":"2022-09-30T16:24:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/flooding.london\/rts\/?p=745"},"modified":"2023-04-02T22:31:25","modified_gmt":"2023-04-02T22:31:25","slug":"conservative-councillors-demand-river-thames-dredging","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/flooding.london\/rts\/2022\/09\/30\/conservative-councillors-demand-river-thames-dredging\/","title":{"rendered":"Conservative Councillors demand River Thames dredging"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On 27th September 2022 RBWM resolved as follows:<\/p>\n<p>Since the Environment Agency took responsibility for managing the Thames and alleviating its flood waters, it has ceased the river dredging that had been in place for the previous 50 years.<\/p>\n<p>It is believed that this has caused a decrease in capacity due to unmanaged silting, impacting on river navigation and the river\u2019s capacity to contain flood waters.<\/p>\n<p>This Council:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>i) Requests that the Environment Agency resumes dredging of the River Thames within the boundaries of RBWM (especially the undefended reach between Black Potts and Bells Weir) to both ease navigation and increase the rivers capacity to hold water and therefore alleviate flood risk to our riverside communities.<\/li>\n<li>ii) Requests that the Environment Agency expedites its efforts (in working with RBWM) to bring forward its alternative plans for flood alleviation for the Black Potts to Bells Weir reach of the River Thames following the EA removal of Channel One from the River Thames Scheme in July 2019.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>Please see YouTube extract \u2013 RBWM Council 27\/9\/2022 \u2013 Demand for Environment Agency to reintroduce dredging \u2013 13 minutes<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"RBWM 27 09 22 Motion for Thames Dredging\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/4eaNy2IXrZw?feature=oembed\" width=\"900\" height=\"506\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>RBWM Council 27\/9\/2022 \u2013 Demand for Environment Agency to reintroduce dredging \u2013 13 minutes<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=4eaNy2IXrZw\">https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=4eaNy2IXrZw<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On 27th September 2022 RBWM resolved as follows: Since the Environment Agency took responsibility for managing the Thames and alleviating its flood waters, it has ceased the river dredging that had been in place for the previous 50 years. It is believed that this has caused a decrease in capacity due to unmanaged silting, impacting &#8230;.&nbsp;&nbsp;<a class=\" default\" href=\"http:\/\/flooding.london\/rts\/2022\/09\/30\/conservative-councillors-demand-river-thames-dredging\/\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/flooding.london\/rts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/745"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/flooding.london\/rts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/flooding.london\/rts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/flooding.london\/rts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/flooding.london\/rts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=745"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/flooding.london\/rts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/745\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":753,"href":"http:\/\/flooding.london\/rts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/745\/revisions\/753"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/flooding.london\/rts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=745"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/flooding.london\/rts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=745"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/flooding.london\/rts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=745"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}