Our investigation employed a replicated Before-After-Control-Impact (BACI) design where each maintained section of a drain was paired with an unmaintained section downstream and an unmaintained section on a nearby reference drain of similar size and position in the watershed.
In theory, UK rail infrastructure should be able to cope with temperatures up to 27°C or so, but in practice it only takes one poorly maintained section of line to cause delays up and down the country.
In others, it leaked through poorly maintained sections of walls.
The state of Washington began maintaining sections of what would become US 2 with the extension of State Road 7 in 1909, from Pashastin to Spokane on the Sunset Highway and later State Road 2.
One last locally maintained section exists in the Albany suburb of Bethlehem, where the route is county-maintained between Feura Bush Road and the Delmar Bypass.
Balfour Beatty, the contractor responsible for maintaining a section of track that broke at Hatfield, saw its initial £10m fine reduced to £7.5m.
The Dartmouth Outing Club (www.dartmouth.edu/~doc), which maintains a section of the Appalachian Trail from just north of Woodstock, Vt., to Kinsman Notch in New Hampshire, offers snowshoe-friendly winter hikes.
As I understand it, this is because Apple wants to maintain a section of the App Store that is totally free.
As governor, he signed a 35-year public-private partnership with the firm in 2014 to finance, construct, and maintain a section of the highway.
But union representatives point out that Metro has provided no proof that the workers who were fired had maintained the section of track where the derailment occurred.
At the time, Mr Weis worked for Advanced Network & Services, a non-profit organisation that built and maintained a large section of the internet under contract to the American National Science Foundation.
