In south-east Georgia, Camden County officials sent out teams to clean out storm drains and ditches in preparation for possible flooding.
Biologists surmise that fish in the lake have high levels of organochlorines caused by chemicals accumulating in ponds and ditches on the land off the northeast part of the lake.
Finally, our train heaves out of the station and past the creeks of Mombasa Island, belching out plumes of thick smoke as we swoop around shanty towns where corrugated iron roofs glisten in the rain, and ditches where frogs croak in the darkness.
Hard work may be a virtue and digging ditches by hand is certainly hard work.
It is crisscrossed with canals and irrigation ditches built by U.S. foreign aid in the 1950s.
The area -- about 500 yards long and 150 yards wide -- contains mangroves, scrub brush and drainage ditches.
Mr Evans, a farm labourer who mends hedges and digs ditches for a living, had been severely hit by the crisis in the countryside.
But William Fox-Pitt and his horse Tamarillo are not afraid of a challenge and attacked the fixed rails, yawning ditches and steep banks with gusto and won.
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Some of the jumps are more than a metre high and include perilous jumps over water, ditches and banks, though there is usually an easier but longer route round.
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An inquiry by West Sussex County Council, Arun and Chichester district councils, the Environment Agency and Southern Water is looking into drainage systems, including whether ditches and gullies were blocked and how to improve maintenance.
Understanding your strengths and, perhaps more important, identifying your limits will help keep you out of the ditches and solvent over the long-term.
The government is preparing for the monsoon, digging ditches and improving latrines.
My guide drove like a man possessed, crashing through ditches and racing across the plains, aware of the distance we had to travel and the speed of the setting sun.
"The birds are preying on the fish in ditches and small pools northeast of the lake, " said Dale Hall, acting regional director for the Southeastern Region of the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service.
In Southeast Asia, where they originate, they live in irrigation ditches and rice paddies, thriving there until the dry season, when their pools shrink and they squirm along to the next pocket of water.
John McTiernan and his wife Donna Dubrow, fresh from Los Angeles and the film industry, threw themselves into restoration, breeding new livestock (a lean-meat hybrid called a Beefalo), replanting tired fields, building reservoirs, and repairing old irrigation ditches.
After their sneak attack on the capital's main airport was repelled, the insurgents dispersed, hiding in Kinshasa's ditches, shacks and bushes.
Largemouth bass are everywhere, in canals, ditches, lakes and ponds.
Rolando, a young infantryman in our area of responsibility, won over local farmers by spontaneously shedding his equipment and helping them dig irrigation ditches one day while on patrol.
Past fields of sugar cane and a network of narrow irrigation ditches, a narrow pass leads to a flat area surrounded by hills.
Government can increase employment by hiring the unemployed to dig ditches on Monday Wednesday and Friday and fill them in on Tuesday and Thursday.
The 7280 ditches the keypad altogether and goes for a pen-shaped design and some weird new NaviSpinner controller that you're supposed to use to navigate the user interface (so how do you dial?).
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In ten minutes, the fire circled the house, and he climbed up to the belvedere to track its progress as it burned to the ditches surrounding his tract, taking out the pump house and a tractor shed, and incinerating his Dodge, which burned hot and high, killing most of the foliage of the live oak shading it.
Rebelle ditches the lasers for NERF arrows and slaps a supposedly female-friendly coat of purple and pink paint on the whole thing.
Three men whose bodies were found in ditches in Cambridgeshire were stabbed in the chest and neck, an inquest heard.
We thread our way along irrigation ditches, walls of dry-stacked stones and government-encouraged "biofences" of sea buckthorns with juicy Leh berries.
The Gwynedd Archaeological Trust says road works and a honeycomb of buildings were found, but no defensive ditches.
During the two-day hearing the court was told Mr Thurgarland had dug ditches, built a "fortress" of sandbags and stacked furniture after becoming obsessed with flooding.
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In "Now, " the pair ditches its familiar electric organ for a softer blend of piano and synthesizer before jumping feet-first into a clash of childhood and maturity.
Creative's Zii EGG may be snagging the majority of headlines for the company these days, but it looks like it's not about to let its regular PMPs fall by the wayside, and it's now announced its new Zen X-Fi2 player that ditches the few buttons found on the original Zen X-Fi in favor of full touchscreen controls.
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