{"id":469413,"date":"2026-03-11T10:04:08","date_gmt":"2026-03-11T10:04:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/469413\/"},"modified":"2026-03-11T10:04:08","modified_gmt":"2026-03-11T10:04:08","slug":"new-wrentham-overflow-system-could-help-rare-wildlife-thrive","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/469413\/","title":{"rendered":"New Wrentham overflow system could help rare wildlife thrive"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Flood issues which have prevented rare species of birds from thriving could be significantly reduced after the completion of a new overflow system.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The B1127, which links Wrentham and Southwold Road, had long been prone to rising water levels, hindering successful nesting and causing periodic closures.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">In a bid to combat the problem, Natural England installed what it said was an &#8220;innovative&#8221; drainage system in the 140-hectare wildlife habitat, Easton Valley.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Completed earlier this month, it was hoped the emergency overflow would help maintain water levels, which would give birds the best chance of breeding successfully.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Flood issues which have prevented rare species of birds from thriving could be significantly reduced after the completion&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":469414,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[90,56,54,55,4407],"class_list":["post-469413","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-wildlife","tag-science","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom","tag-wildlife"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/469413","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=469413"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/469413\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/469414"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=469413"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=469413"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=469413"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}