{"id":48227,"date":"2014-10-01T14:12:57","date_gmt":"2014-10-01T14:12:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?guid=5f652936b6b83b45a79d1df3bf3e35eb"},"modified":"2014-10-01T14:12:57","modified_gmt":"2014-10-01T14:12:57","slug":"press-release-work-begins-on-boston-flood-bank","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?p=48227","title":{"rendered":"Press release: Work begins on Boston flood bank"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"govspeak\">\n<p>The flood defence was breached when high tides combined with a tidal surge on 5 December 2013 to produce the highest water levels ever recorded in the Haven, flooding the landfill site and commercial properties on Riverside Industrial Estate.<\/p>\n<p>Water was 6.08 above ordnance datum. Higher than the floods in 1953 and 1978.<\/p>\n<p>The Environment Agency did an initial repair to the damaged defence in December 2013 using sheet piles and 2,000 tonnes of stone to plug a 45 metre gap to reduce the risk of further flooding.<\/p>\n<p>Permanent repairs will now be carried out to the flood bank. The Environment Agency also plans to increase the width of the bank to 4 metres and the height to 7.3 metres above ordnance datum (the universal benchmark against which tides in Great Britain are measured).<\/p>\n<p>Work to the flood defence is being carried out in agreement with the landowner FCC Environment.<\/p>\n<p>Mark Robinson, Senior Coastal Advisor for the Environment Agency said: <\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p class=\"last-child\">This project is good news for Boston and we remain committed to working in partnership to reduce the risk of tidal flooding in the town and the surrounding communities.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Work is expected to take 8 weeks to complete. The sheet piles will remain in place in front of the defence to reduce the risk of flooding.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Work starts tomorrow (1 Oct) on a \u00a3500,000 scheme to improve the flood bank at Slippery Gowt on the Boston Haven.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48227"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=48227"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48227\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=48227"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=48227"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=48227"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}