"drainage" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- The majority of the formerly extensive wetlands have been subject to drainage schemes and agricultural improvement.
- In addition they must pay heavy rates for the major drainage schemes.
- Game fish stocks are now recovering following a drainage scheme in the late 1980s and restoration of the system.
- He was also responsible for the south-eastern drainage scheme.
- There is also evidence that drainage schemes increase flooding frequency and the total amount of runoff (Robinson 1986).
- In 1845, he began an improvements programme on the island, including drainage schemes and road construction.
- Farmers are looking for free drainage schemes and for ways of selling their land to us.
- This met with local approval, and James Green was appointed as engineer for the drainage scheme.
- The office also historically had responsibility for drainage schemes and other large civil and public engineering projects.
- There was opposition to drainage schemes from the local inhabitants, who feared that they would lose their common grazing rights.
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