Protests regarding the Environment Agency’s plans for a £2.5m replacement of Northmoor Weir are growing almost daily.
Residents led by Mike Hill claim the health-and-safety arguments for replacing the hand-operated paddle and rymer weir do not stack up.
Now the Oxford Flood Alliance has joined the debate, suggesting that the project has no flood-risk benefits either.
And it says Government funds would be much better spent protecting homes elsewhere.
Oxford West and Abingdon MP Nicola Blackwood has also flagged up campaigners’ concerns in a Westminster Hall debate.
With the Witney constituency of Prime Minister David Cameron on one side of the weir, he will be aware of the arguments in the case.
The flood of protests will keep coming, but with the Environment Agency due to start work on site it may be too late to turn the tide.
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