Sentences with phrase «flood drainage ditches»

The main job for conservation management, he says, is to block off and flood drainage ditches, and allowing the vegetation to recover.

Not exact matches

These drainage ditches hold all the water necessary for irrigating and flooding the bogs during the fall harvest.

I did see the picture of the pitch in the middle of the prison when trying to match up Google Earth and some old maps (which put the Manor Ground immediately southwest of the prison, and, by inference, the Sportsman a tad southwest of that and nearer to the canal and drainage ditches that, I assume, were the source of the flooding, but we are only talking a difference of field or two at most; and if you have primary sources, I'll bow to those).

It also suggests that the Chinese government's long - running efforts to tame the Yellow River with levees, dikes and drainage ditches actually made periodic flooding much worse, setting the stage for a catastrophic flood circa A.D. 14 - 17, which likely killed millions and triggered the collapse of the Western Han Dynasty.

On Wedholme Flow we flooded Fisons» old drainage ditches and the open water has been completely covered by Sphagnum cuspidatum, so that it is dangerous to walk across the bog because you can not see the water.»

With newly installed water control structures in the drainage ditches, they are able to control the rate and timing of wetland flooding to facilitate the forestry operations necessary for restoration — truly turning the historical human impact into conservation opportunity.

Governments should simply adopt their traditional role of funding tangible assets that can be used during emergencies and putting in place measures to prevent flooding by maintaining levees and drainage ditches.