{"id":651920,"date":"2025-12-24T05:57:46","date_gmt":"2025-12-24T05:57:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/651920\/"},"modified":"2025-12-24T05:57:46","modified_gmt":"2025-12-24T05:57:46","slug":"bucks-flood-warnings-as-thames-water-sewage-discharges","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/651920\/","title":{"rendered":"Bucks flood warnings as Thames Water sewage discharges"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n  Environment Agency food alerts have been issued for the River Thames, Lower River Colne and Frays River, as well as Bear Brook and surrounding tributaries.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Bucks Council stated: &#8220;A flood alert has been issued for the River Thames from Hurley to Cookham, including Harleyford, Bisham, Marlow and Bourne End by the Environment Agency.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  &#8220;Rising river levels today may lead to flooding.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  &#8220;Take care and avoid walking, cycling or driving through flood water.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  &#8220;Don\u2019t put yourself or others at risk.&#8221;\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  <img   width=\"100%\"\/>Flood alert (Image: Bucks Council)\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  It made the same warning to the public for &#8216;Bear Brook and tributaries in the Aylesbury area, including Wendover and Weston Turville&#8217;.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  <img   width=\"100%\"\/>Flood alerts (Image: Bucks Council)\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  The council added: &#8220;Flooding is possible for: The Lower River Colne and Frays River at Uxbridge, West Drayton, Poyle and Stanwell Moor.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  &#8220;High river levels today may lead to flooding.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  &#8220;Flooding is possible on 19 December 2025.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  &#8220;Locations most affected will be low lying land and roads near rivers, especially in areas near Staines Moor.&#8221;\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  <img   width=\"100%\"\/>Flood alert (Image: Bucks Council)\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  This comes amid Thames Water sewage discharges across the county.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  <strong>READ MORE:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bucksfreepress.co.uk\/news\/25661213.bins-will-collected-recycling-centres-open-christmas-new-year\/?ref=ial\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>When bins will be collected and recycling centres open Christmas and New Year<\/strong><\/a>\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  In Aylesbury, Gerrards Cross, and Princes Risborough, there are ongoing sewage discharges at the time of writing.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  In Princes Risborough, this started at 2pm yesterday, December 18.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Aylesbury&#8217;s discharge into the River Thame started at 6.15pm yesterday.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  These ongoing sewage releases are not the only Bucks discharges in the last 48 hours.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Yesterday evening, there was a five-hour and 12-minute discharge into the Thames at Little Marlow.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Chesham and Iver waterways have also been impacted.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  The River Chess Association had shared advice to the public amid the Chesham discharge, it said: &#8220;Please stay out of the water downstream of Blackwell Hall Lane and keep pets out of the river, too.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Environment Agency food alerts have been issued for the River Thames, Lower River Colne and Frays River, as&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":651921,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3843],"tags":[728,70,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-651920","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-environment","8":"tag-environment","9":"tag-science","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115773010305880204","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/651920","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=651920"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/651920\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/651921"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=651920"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=651920"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=651920"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}