Besides clean-up of materials, the company plans to remove unused utilities in the shaft, repair any damaged structures, install a water ring to control entry of water into the shaft and prevent ice from forming in winter, install a new power cable and a metal brattice between the eastern and western half of the shafts to provide a physical barrier, improving safety and functionality, company officials said.

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AWG, formerly Anglian Water, has ring-fenced its water business.

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In 1998, after a legislative battle, King signed a law granting, for the first time, island dwellers legal control of a three-mile ring of water around their island.

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The highways that ring Manhattan along the water sit atop a series of tide gates that are designed to drain water from the road and keep water from gurgling up from below, said Sam Schwartz, a former city transportation commissioner who now works as a consultant.

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He adds that the sections of the aquifers UEC will be mining contain only nonpotable water to begin with and that the ring of monitor wells it will install around the site will detect any movement of dissolved uranium beyond the production wells.

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Moreover, new welterweight king Cory Spinks and the wild-talking Ricardo Mayorga look likely to share a ring again in 2004 - a prospect to make the mouth water.

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Wanting only to be kind, she began hunting for the ring in all seriousness, peering at the riverbed, fishing for gleams in the water, her hands aching from the cold as if the flesh were being dragged off her bones.

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The shed, which does not have any water, electricity or waste collection, is used to store the race baskets, and occasionally to ring the birds.

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