{"id":19625,"date":"2018-07-21T16:11:09","date_gmt":"2018-07-21T15:11:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ihbconline.co.uk\/newsachive\/?p=19625"},"modified":"2018-07-21T16:11:09","modified_gmt":"2018-07-21T15:11:09","slug":"boater-accidentally-drains-kennet-and-avon-canal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/?p=19625","title":{"rendered":"Boater accidentally drains Kennet and Avon Canal"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3><a href=\"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/BBC_website200718.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-19626 alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/BBC_website200718-258x300.png\" alt=\"website\" width=\"258\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a>A boater has accidentally drained a stretch of the Kennet and Avon Canal &#8211; The Kennet and Avon Canal is an 87-mile (140km) waterway linking the River Thames at Reading to the River Avon in Bath &#8211; after leaving all the lock gates open.<\/h3>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>The BBC writes:<\/p>\n<p>A section of the waterway was left with hardly any water on Tuesday near the Barge Inn in Seend, Wiltshire.<\/p>\n<p>A spokesperson for the Canal and River Trust confirmed what happened was not malicious but that the boater was \u2018rushing and left the paddles up\u2019.<\/p>\n<p>The lock paddles \u2018work like a plug on a bath in allowing water in and out of the locks,\u2019 he explained.<\/p>\n<p>He added that the trust had since restored the water levels.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/uk-england-wiltshire-44869566\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more&#8230;.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A boater has accidentally drained a stretch of the Kennet and Avon Canal &#8211; The Kennet and Avon Canal is an 87-mile (140km) waterway linking the River Thames at Reading to the River Avon in Bath &#8211; after leaving all &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/?p=19625\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19625","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sector-newsblog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19625","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=19625"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19625\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19627,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19625\/revisions\/19627"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=19625"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=19625"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=19625"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}