UPDATE: Flood alerts lifted on parts of River Thames

FLOOD alerts covering the River Thames from the boundary with Gloucestershire at Lechlade through Oxford to Radley were lifted this morning by the Environment Agency.

Alerts remain in force on the Thames through Abingdon, Little Wittenham and Wallingford to Goring; on the River Cherwell from Lower Heyford to Oxford; and the rivers Thame and Ray and the Chalgrove Brook.

For more details, click on the link to the Environment Agency website.

Comments(5)

A Scroat says...
7:32pm Sun 6 May 12

God bless the Lock keepers, they sorted it out. That's why we need them.

Headington_angel says...
10:13pm Sun 6 May 12

only lock keepers are normally found on canals, not rivers or brooks....maybe the water has just been drained away into the ground for a more sonic option

A Scroat says...
8:57am Mon 7 May 12

Headington_angel wrote:
only lock keepers are normally found on canals, not rivers or brooks....maybe the water has just been drained away into the ground for a more sonic option
Lock keepers not found on rivers? There are 45 of them on the Thames according to the Environment Agency you lunatic. To help you, it's the river that flows into the sea not the canal which is basically a stagnant ditch. Get out more.

cowleycowconjurer says...
9:58am Tue 8 May 12

Doesn't look like much water soaked into the ground looking at all the cracks in the earth. The aquifers are so dry we could probably build housing estates down there. An underground canal network full of pretty red and green boats and smiley happy lock keepers...

A Scroat says...
7:08pm Tue 8 May 12

cowleycowconjurer wrote:
Doesn't look like much water soaked into the ground looking at all the cracks in the earth. The aquifers are so dry we could probably build housing estates down there. An underground canal network full of pretty red and green boats and smiley happy lock keepers...
Spot on CCC. Perhaps we should keep away from Headington as it appears to be a swamp with sonic water. I'm off to count the fairies at the bottom of her garden.

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