{"id":18761,"date":"2025-07-23T21:10:08","date_gmt":"2025-07-23T21:10:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/18761\/"},"modified":"2025-07-23T21:10:08","modified_gmt":"2025-07-23T21:10:08","slug":"lincolnshire-flood-alerts-upgraded-by-environment-agency","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/18761\/","title":{"rendered":"Lincolnshire flood alerts upgraded by Environment Agency"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">David Manby, flood resilience team leader at the Environment Agency, said: &#8220;We have been working hard to improve the accuracy and the reach of our flood warning service to better protect people.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The changes include a new flood warning area covering the South Forty-Foot Drain in Boston, as well as splitting the River Witham flood warning area in Grantham to ensure better accuracy. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">According to the Environment Agency, data from the January flooding showed that some Grantham residents received flood warnings, despite not being impacted &#8211; meaning they were unnecessarily disturbed.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">More than 800 homes have now been moved to a new &#8220;wider&#8221; flood warning zone, a spokesperson added.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"David Manby, flood resilience team leader at the Environment Agency, said: &#8220;We have been working hard to improve&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":18762,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[1397,90,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-18761","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-environment","tag-environment","tag-science","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18761","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18761"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18761\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18762"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18761"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18761"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18761"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}