polder
washland

Her face must shown how she felt, for Polder went on.

Some people say that this is precisely why the polder economy has been such a success.

He didn't have to arrange anything; Polder herself made sure she was next ahead of him in line.

Polder looked across at the tall man, as though they were the same height.

By the time they reached the polder she was beginning to get the rhythm of it.

The next step was draining all the water from the future polder.

"Of course the people here will be impressed by it," Polder said.

Several days later, Polder was declared to be a public nuisance.

The water table here lies a scant four feet below the polder.

And I will say that Polder is a good man.

There was a long pause as the shaft went home to Polder.

I swear that Polder himself was never anything more than a toy.

Priority to the early pioneers who had been in the polder since the start.

This polder could, on a small scale experiment future agriculture.

In the late twentieth century the polder became a site for holiday homes.

See if you can talk your friend into an early lunch and I'll go to the polder after that."

Polder cried then with a show of the energy he hoped to acquire.

You have been worrying about not being real, Polder.

We found his krelk, or what was left of it anyway, on the polder.

Originally, this low part of the new polder was destined to become an industrial area.

"You have to keep water out of the polder.

Too bad Polder would have to miss the lecture, but there'd be other exposures to that.

Zelde thought she'd said it nice, but Polder got mad.

Polder trumpeted with his rich call, and all the walls fell down before him.

It is important for its wild flowers, dragonflies and butterflies, as well as the birds, which are most numerous when the washland is flooded.

They consist of washland, which is used as pasture during the summer but which floods in the winter, and are the largest area of such land in the United Kingdom.

Freshney Bog was constructed in 2001 as a washland, which could be used to hold excess water when the channel below it could not cope with the flow in the river.

Prior to 1825, there was a dam where the sluice is located, and water was let out of the washland by cutting a slot in it, which the flood water enlarged as it passed through.

To facilitate the drainage of the washland, there is a third, unembanked river between the two Bedford Rivers, alongside the Old Bedford River and known as the River Delph.

Curry Moor is therefore used as a washland, and excess water floods over it, to be pumped out at a later date by the Curry Moor pumping station, situated on the banks of the river below the railway bridge.

The scheme involved the cutting of the Old and New Bedford Rivers to bypass the meandering course of the River Great Ouse and create a huge washland from Earith to Salters Lode to store flood water.

Wombwell Ings is used as a washland, which is flooded in a controlled way when the river is unable to discharge into the Dearne because of high water levels, which are themselves often the result of high levels in the River Don.