Sentence examples for drainage schemes from inspiring English sources

But allowing people to become more knowledgeable about flood risk doesn't sound to me like a recipe for smaller government; aren't people going to want more assurance, more flood barriers, more drainage schemes – like the expensive and ultimately useless river straightening exercise in Somerset following last winter's inundations?

This paper investigates the effectiveness of various advance drainage schemes with respect to face stability.

Also different drainage schemes are designed and discuss the distribution of external water pressure of the schemes.

Drainage schemes to alleviate it were constructed on both sides of the river.

The 1762 act created the Witham Drainage General Commissioners, who continued to promote drainage schemes actively, creating a drainage network known as the Witham Navigable Drains that transformed much of northern Lincolnshire from fen to farming land.

Drainage schemes were first authorised during the reign of Queen Elizabeth I, but from 1632, a group of Adventurers took control of the drainage, in return for which they were granted land.

Hazeltine claimed that if Cornwall council had implemented a £45,000 drainage scheme to route excess water through nearby woods the tragedy would not have happened.

"The drainage scheme probably wouldn't have been allowed on the basis of cost-benefit analysis, but such was the strength of political pressure from farming groups," said Declan Cooke, the Moy fishery manager.

No new field drainage scheme will help us as atmospheric carbon concentrations edge up to 400 parts per million; hardware and technology alone can't solve problems of this magnitude.

Lawyers acting for MAG said the Court of Appeal had allowed a judicial review over the plans for a Barratt Homes drainage scheme on the site.

The seepage forces are determined numerically through steady-state, three-dimensional seepage flow analysis which takes account of the characteristics of a given drainage scheme.