Network Rail have begun work to raise the track at Stroud’s bridge under the railway, just south of the old Abingdon road.
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Munday’s bridge: Network Rail start work to improve the channel
Munday’s bridge under the mainline railway at Kennington is an important route for flood water to leave the west Oxford flood plain. A lot of work was done to improve it in 2013 but the channel itself under the bridge was never properly cut and profiled and large wooden posts were left in situ in the channel. Work started yesterday to put these things right.
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- 1. On the west, looking back upstream from the bridge
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- 2. From about the same point, now looking downstream towards the bridge
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- 3. A closer view
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- 4. Looking back upstream under the bridge from the east
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- 5. Same as last, but from further downstream
Thames Regional Flood & Coastal Committee visit Oxford
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- Introducing the Redbridge area
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- Pointing out Stroud’s bridge (next)
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- Stroud’s bridge – inadequate capacity under the railway
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- Munday’s bridge under the railway at Kennington, working well following multi-partner restoration (see archive)
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- Leaving Munday’s
The Thames Regional Flood & Coastal Committee (RFCC) met in Oxford yesterday. Following the meeting, members visited sites in Oxford related to OFAS. Members of our steering group were on hand to welcome them and, with staff from the Environment Agency, showed the visitors some of the problems which need to be surmounted to alleviate Oxford’s recurrent flooding.
Flooding which, unchecked, is likely to threaten further the proper functioning, and the reputation, of the city in the future if (as a consensus of scientists predicts) climate change makes extreme weather more common. OFAS offers the only practicable way towards reducing this all too real danger in time.
Flooding again
26 December 2012
Water levels in the area have crept up slowly today and are on the verge of flooding the lowest-lying houses in South Hinksey. The main-line rail track at Kennington is flooded.
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