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    A ditch is a small to moderate trench created to channel water. A ditch can be used for drainage, to drain water from low-lying areas, alongside roadways...
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    A drainage ditch is a depression in the land created to channel water. Drainage ditches are typically formed around low-lying areas, roadsides or fields...
    15 KB (1,273 words) - 21:50, 10 June 2024
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    French drain (redirect from French ditch)
    drainage systems have been used for centuries. They have many forms that are similar in design and function to the traditional French drain. Ditches are...
    11 KB (1,467 words) - 23:32, 15 November 2024
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    irrigation water and drainage to control soil salinity. Bar ditch Building construction Deep drainage Drain commissioner Drain (plumbing) Drainage basin or watershed...
    15 KB (1,755 words) - 22:35, 15 November 2024
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    dam is a small, sometimes temporary, dam constructed across a swale, drainage ditch, or waterway to counteract erosion by reducing water flow velocity....
    20 KB (2,128 words) - 00:33, 3 October 2024
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    Rhyne (category Drainage canals)
    /ˈriːn/ "reen"; from Old English ryne or Welsh rhewyn or rhewin "ditch") is a drainage ditch, or canal, used to turn areas of wetland close to sea level into...
    5 KB (452 words) - 21:43, 12 February 2024
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    from the mainland of Kent. Now the River Wantsum is little more than a drainage ditch starting at Reculver, and ending where it joins the Stour. Bede, in...
    3 KB (273 words) - 03:15, 20 April 2022
  • the River Stour and the River Wantsum, which is little more than a drainage ditch lying between Reculver and St Nicholas-at-Wade and joins the Stour about...
    7 KB (841 words) - 14:59, 4 November 2024
  • lot in Fort Worth, Texas. Her body was found three days later in a drainage ditch 30 minutes south of Fort Worth. Walker was beaten, tortured, raped,...
    11 KB (1,166 words) - 08:04, 11 November 2024
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    Laois, sixteen kilometres from Marie's home. She was in a bog beside a drainage ditch with a cement block placed on her body. A post-mortem revealed she had...
    24 KB (2,988 words) - 08:18, 18 November 2024
  • pumping, open ditches, or both, tile drainage is often the most effective means of draining subsurface water. The phrase "tile drainage" derives from...
    26 KB (3,483 words) - 19:20, 7 November 2024
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    now part of European route E70. He quickly concealed himself in a drainage ditch that he had identified as a hole-up site while descending. There, he...
    16 KB (1,550 words) - 19:45, 3 November 2024
  • thrown from the car, but drowned in a drainage ditch. There were only three feet (1 meter) of water in the ditch. Three months later, Blythe's widow, Virginia...
    12 KB (1,239 words) - 20:22, 18 October 2024
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    Canal Opened; Fear of an Injunction Hastens the Consummation of the Big Drainage Ditch". The New York Times. January 18, 1900. p. 8. Archived from the original...
    27 KB (2,807 words) - 22:05, 13 July 2024
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    12 – 20 feet (3 – 5 metres) down an embankment into a drainage ditch. The lower part of the ditch was water-filled to between a foot and waist level, and...
    11 KB (1,242 words) - 12:09, 14 November 2024
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    until silting and land reclamation turned the sea channel into a large drainage ditch. At this point the third large tributary, the 8.4-mile (13.4 km) Sarre...
    17 KB (1,721 words) - 09:05, 20 August 2024
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    that have been given a name and may consist of a narrow irrigation or drainage ditch to a large ship, municipal water and/or irrigation canal. States with...
    32 KB (718 words) - 19:49, 2 November 2024
  • sewage flooded a nearby park and contaminated an open surface-water drainage ditch and flowed 500 meters to a tidal canal. The SCADA system was directing...
    39 KB (4,700 words) - 16:21, 18 November 2024
  • buried alive for being Lucie’s accomplice but she digs her way into a drainage ditch and escapes. She fights her way back into the underground facility,...
    12 KB (1,402 words) - 02:35, 18 November 2024
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    truck "at a high rate of speed" when it left the road, traveled into a drainage ditch, and rolled over several times. Kyle was arrested for driving under...
    60 KB (5,565 words) - 19:33, 11 November 2024
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