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This will result in wells that will make a substantial improvement in the recovery factor just because they are absolutely in the proper place within the reservoir for the purposes of drainage.

- Andrew Gould

The soil and drainage are still intact,

- David Price

First of all, we appreciate the bypass. But they dropped the ball on the drainage problem.

- Tom Sullivan

London is vulnerable to flooding -- be it from the Thames tide, from rivers as a result of heavy rainfall, or from our drainage system.

- Roger Evans

London is vulnerable to flooding -- be it from the Thames tide, from rivers as a result of heavy rainfall, or from our drainage system,

- Roger Evans

After about one hour of rain, the drainage ditch in the front of the house is so full it is halfway up the front yard. The backyard looks like a lake. We are on septic and every time it rains, you cannot use the bathroom facilities, and the smell of septic is very strong.

- Jane Hamilton

I needed to explain that Louisiana`s coast accepts the drainage from two-thirds of the United States and, while the necessary levees constructed upstream have prevented floods, they have also contributed to problems downstream.

- Alicia Munnell

There`s two huge parts of our job, ... The first: protect old-growth forest, which is about 9 percent of what it was. The other is to restore logged-over lands. But you also must work on lots of small parts, like how residents in this drainage use water, what happens along roads.

- Anthony Bliss

We have so many other areas with road and drainage needs, I have a problem with that. I`ve been working day and night to get Somerset Lane and Pine Avenue paved. You get to the north end of Pine Avenue and it looks like a Third World country.

- Anthony Sabino

We`re looking at several things. We`re concerned with the retaining wall, its stability from a water quality perspective, and their drainage controls, which are insufficient.

- Atsuo Ito

(A. Lowe`s is next in line of the big retailers slated to come to Hampton Cove. Randy Cunningham with the city planning department said officials with Lowe`s have already approached the board of adjustments to request the necessary permits to build there, across the street from Super Wal-Mart. In early June, a permit was issued to Ben Branum Contractors of Huntsville for grading and drainage work on a 30-acre site at that corner.) It is still in the planning stages, and we don`t have the drawings on it yet, ... It isn`t entirely solid yet, but that is what has been proposed.

- Aviya Kushner

We have a great drainage system, so our carts go out all the time.

- Barbara Webb