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  • Rock Creek is heavily affected by such sewage, and the chances are that the situation is much worse on many other urban drainways, for their longstanding degradation or sheer disappearance from view has lost them the alert defenders who watch over Rock Creek in its pleasant valley.

    The Nation's River A report on the Potomac from the U.S. Department of the Interior United States. Dept. of the Interior.

  • The two men, Michael Cook and Andrew Edmond, are urban explorers and photographers who have each detailed their previous adventures on their websites vanishingpoint. ca (which includes a guide to Toronto's hidden drainways) and undermontreal. com-but depending on how the pair's legal situation turns out, those sites might be headed for an indefinite hiatus.

    Torontoist André Bovee-Begun 2010

  • But traditional drainways often carry water away so fast that they may overload the collection point or carry water and materials so directly to the collection point that treatment is needed.

    Grand Island Independent Home RSS 2008

  • But traditional drainways often carry water away so fast that they may overload the collection point or carry water and materials so directly to the collection point that treatment is needed.

    Grand Island Independent Home RSS 2008

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