{"id":812754,"date":"2026-10-24T20:32:13","date_gmt":"2026-10-24T20:32:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/812754\/"},"modified":"2026-10-24T20:32:13","modified_gmt":"2026-10-24T20:32:13","slug":"drought-restrictions-lifted-on-river-thames-locks-amid-storm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/812754\/","title":{"rendered":"Drought restrictions lifted on River Thames locks amid storm"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n  The Environment Agency introduced navigation restrictions on the River Thames waterway from St John&#8217;s Lock in Gloucestershire to Osney Lock in Oxford on Saturday, July 25.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  The measures became necessary after a prolonged period of hot, dry weather over the summer, to conserve water within the river system for navigation and water abstraction.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Amid the first storms of the season, the agency announced on Friday, October 23 that the navigation restrictions have now been lifted.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  A statement said: &#8220;Drought restrictions between St Johns and Osney, and between Goring and Culham have been lifted today.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  &#8220;There are still drought restrictions in place on the Thames, please check the River Thames Restrictions and Closures page for more details.&#8221;\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Restrictions that remain are for specific locks and reaches of the waterway caused by other reasons, such as moorings being closed or alerts like submerged vessels.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Environment Agency introduced navigation restrictions on the River Thames waterway from St John&#8217;s Lock in Gloucestershire to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":812755,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[1397,90,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-812754","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\/812754","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=812754"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/812754\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/812755"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=812754"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=812754"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=812754"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}