Crews helped some residents pump water out of their houses but no homes were evacuated.
Crews also had to pump water from Lambourne Court, Gwersyllt, and Hightown Road, Wrexham.
The power is used to pump water up into the reservoirs that feed the hydroelectric turbines.
In some communities the fire department will even pump water out of your basement for you.
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An operation to pump water out of flooded properties in an East Yorkshire village is continuing.
The windmills generate electricity and pump water in his hometown, north of the capital, Lilongwe.
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Though a great vote-grabber, the policy encourages farmers to pump water up from their tube-wells both day and night.
The pump storage hydro scheme is designed to "soak up" excess power generated by wind and wave farms, using it to pump water up to a reservoir.
Hydro dams can be reversed and pump water uphill so that the next day, when gravity pulls the water back down, the turbines spin to make electricity.
Crews from Bridgend and Cowbridge were called at 08:04 GMT on Friday to pump water from the scene and were still in attendance over six hours later.
The New York Times reports that a team of specialists from the Army Corps of Engineers has been deployed to help pump water out of the flooded subway tunnels.
They have also been building a dam of hundreds of sand bags around the bomb site to pump water out in preparation for the delicate task of defusing the device.
We know that the clock mechanism soon broke down, and it was up to the eunuchs to pump water manually every time the emperor was passing in front of the statues.
Crew members tried to plug the tear with wooden pegs and pump the water out.
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They are continuing to pump out water, excavating the blockages and shoring up the tunnels.
Large amounts of energy are needed to pump the water round the mountainside.
The extra demand may have reflected a disappointing monsoon that forced farmers to pump more water for their fields.
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However, following record rainfall when flooding at the site became an issue, the company had helped pump the water away.
So the city, in 1867, sank an immense cylinder, or crib, 2 miles from shore to pump fresh water back to the inhabitants.
But with the discovery of leaks, Tepco has to pump the water out of the pools earlier than it expected and store it above ground instead.
But somehow we lost power in our generator and in our main engines, and as a result, we could not pump any water out of the boat.
Glasgow City Council said heavy rain seeped into a water pump building, affecting toilets and fresh water.
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Number two, we're getting assets in to pump as much water out as possible.
Months later, after a water pump burned out, a repairman highlighted the login from the Russian IP address.
The sea water pump was shut down presumably to check the well stability.
Agoglia hauls a multi-terrain hovercraft, dirt bikes, satellite phones with GPS tracking, a huge generator and a large water pump.
Be it a transboundary river basin or aquifer, or a water pump built for a rural village, examples of cooperation apparently abound.
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