This website has been created using the best information available to GARD at the time of its compilation. The opinions expressed are based on GARD’s perception of the issues involved and the stance taken by Thames Water with regard to their proposal to build an Abingdon Reservoir. The views expressed in this website, which GARD reserves the right to change ahead of the Inquiry, cannot necessarily be taken, therefore, in whole or in part to represent GARD’s position at that Inquiry;;;.
Thames Water draft Water Resources Management Plan widely condemned! Now we need to tell Ofwat and its agency RAPID what we think.
Thank you to all the huge number of local residents who wrote to oppose Thames Water’s draft Water Resources Management Plan (dWRMP24). The plan was also opposed at all political levels in Oxfordshire: from local MPs David Johnston (Wantage) and Layla Moran (Oxford West and Abingdon), through the County and District Councils, down to the many Parishes surrounding the proposed Reservoir site. The views of Oxfordshire County Council can be found at oxfordshire-county-council-calls-for-giant-reservoir-plan-t