the volume of water is forcing old stone field drains to the limit
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There, in the bank, misshapen clay field drains from the 19th century still function.
The plant was fed to cattle, used to roof outhouses, line field drains, keep the haystack off the ground, make tools and dye Easter eggs.
He confirmed that the field had been spread with about 25,000 gallons of slurry, but said the company was unaware of the existence of the field drain.
Water from this excavation would be collected in local sumps and pumped to existing field drains to the west of the excavated area.
Another important product, which played its part in the modernization of agriculture during the 18th and 19th cents., was the field drain.
In the past, domestic effluent treatment and disposal in rural areas has been limited to using septic tanks or discharging to a watercourse or into field drains.
Manure from the feedlot can wash directly into the lake if spread near field drains or the lakeshore.
Breaking the field drains could turn a damp piece of set-aside into an attractive wetland - provided there is no risk of waterlogging a nearby crop.
But they had put in a couple hundred field drains attached to that ditch, and each was plugged.
The UK's waterways are fed by man-made ditches and field drains that reduce the land's natural ability to hold water.