Category Archives: River ock

Thames (known locally as the Isis?)

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Flood Damage
Down the Ock Valley Walk there is still evidence of flood damage over 4 years after the 2007 floods. Dead trees like the curly branched variety in the picture have been left as a reminder.

A planning application has recently been put in on land near St Amand Drive, close to the River Ock, with an attached flood risk assessment by a firm based in Burgess Hill, West Sussex and I quote “… Running near the northern boundary of the site is the (bifurcated) River Ock, which flows east to the Thames (known locally as the Isis.) …”

At that point I started to doubt the flood risk. I have never called the Thames the Isis even when I lived in Oxford. Perhaps there are some in Abingdon that do.

Green Gym – Ock Valley Walk

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Members of the Green Gym split into three groups. Some did litter picking.
Green Gym
Another group improved the path. Some dug up the surface, and others poured on the wood chip and tamped it down.
Green Gym
The third group cleared the ground to plant trees. There were about 35 small saplings: oak, beech, silver birch, and cherry.
Green Gym
The saplings were then dug in next to a cane and surrounded by a protective guard . A red spot on the cane means this one is a cherry. All were plotted on a map to monitor how they do.

The Ock Valley Flood Group continue to clear stretches of the River Ock

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Ock Valley Flood Group
The Ock Valley Flood Group, launched back in June,  continue to clear stretches of the River Ock and leave piles of rubbish to be picked up by council lorries. I had a photo of an even bigger pile a few weeks ago – which got lost when Facebook blew up my old laptop.
Ock Valley Flood Group

If the material collected by the flood group is not collected quick enough it can become the building blocks for new dams and bridges.

The group have taken a lot of trolleys back to Tesco and been given refreshments for their trouble. I was told that Tesco now even fit immobilisers to one wheel of trolleys – so only the more determined trolley pusher will get as far as the Ock Valley walk.