{"id":374426,"date":"2026-01-17T02:38:10","date_gmt":"2026-01-17T02:38:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/374426\/"},"modified":"2026-01-17T02:38:10","modified_gmt":"2026-01-17T02:38:10","slug":"environment-agency-issues-flood-alert-for-suffolk-rivers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/374426\/","title":{"rendered":"Environment Agency issues flood alert for Suffolk rivers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n  The Environment Agency has issued an alert for possible flooding for the rivers Deben and Lark on Friday.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  It comes after a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eadt.co.uk\/news\/25767063.suffolk-issued-yellow-weather-warning-met-office\/?ref=ed_direct\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">yellow warning for rain<\/a> was in place across Suffolk on Thursday.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Areas most at risk are low-lying roads and riverside areas on the Deben from Debenham to Ufford, including Framsden, Earl Soham, Easton, Glevering and Wickham Market.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  READ MORE: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eadt.co.uk\/news\/25770719.snow-freezing-temperatures-arrive-suffolk\/\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"omni-lead-story__link\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Suffolk could see MORE snow and freezing temperatures in coming weeks<\/a>\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  There is also risk of flooding around the River Lark and Fynn in areas such as Witnesham, Tuddenham St Martin, Playford and Grudisburgh.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  The latest alert comes after <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eadt.co.uk\/news\/25752238.storm-goretti-brings-five-flood-alerts-across-suffolk\/?ref=ed_direct\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">multiple alerts were issued<\/a> in Suffolk last week as Storm Goretti brought <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eadt.co.uk\/news\/25749892.much-rain-will-storm-goretti-bring-suffolk-week\/?ref=ed_direct\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">&#8220;heavy and persistent&#8221;<\/a> rainfall.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  A spokesman for the Environment Agency said: &#8220;The weather forecast is improving, and we expect levels to start returning to normal soon.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  &#8220;We are monitoring rainfall and river levels and are not expecting the situation to escalate.&#8221;\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  The authority is advising people to avoid low-lying footpaths and bridges near local watercourses.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Environment Agency has issued an alert for possible flooding for the rivers Deben and Lark on Friday.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":374427,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[1397,90,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-374426","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\/374426","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=374426"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/374426\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/374427"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=374426"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=374426"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=374426"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}