Together with neighbouring women she dug a water well, which provides water for cooking, cleaning and washing.
When the municipality, digging a new water pipe, came too close to it the tree threw down a heavy branch to break the truck, another story goes.
If the soil is damp just under the surface, keep digging a hole until water seeps into it.
The foursome escaped at night by digging a tunnel into a water pipe that stretched under the prison's fence, and their absence wasn't noted until morning.
All around Mercer his city was in motion, men in hard hats chest deep in the road, digging out a water main; lovely young college girls sashaying by, their faces flushed with the cold; and over on Charlton, a minister in his Episcopal collar emerged from the church to light up a cigarette.
The city plans to dredge New York harbor, lowering it to about 50 feet, and dig a new water tunnel between Staten Island and Brooklyn.
Since arriving here in December, the British have begun refurbishing the White Cemetery, digging a new well to water the dying grass and paying the impoverished custodian, Rahimullah, for the first time in years.
The $14 billion project, of which $4 billion was already spent on steps like digging a foundation and laying water pipes, will be closely watched by utilities around the country, many of which are leery of nuclear construction because of huge cost overruns in the last round of construction in the 1960s, '70s and '80s.
Her efforts‚ which included digging a trench for mains water, installing central heating and putting in a new bathroom, helped boost the value of the small Georgian end-of-terrace in Stockwell, south London, from almost nothing in 1980 to around £700,000.
