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However the heavy rain has highlighted another question- we understand that this ditch is meant to take all the surface water run-off from the Park School site &#8211; is it up to the job?<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s some photos taken by a local resident:<\/p>\n<p>The first shows the ditch on 19th July, when the water level was low:<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i25.photobucket.com\/albums\/c96\/dhdefender\/ditch1.jpg\" alt=\"Ditch on 19th July\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The second shows the same ditch today  &#8211; not surprisingly, the water level is much higher after all the heavy rain.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i25.photobucket.com\/albums\/c96\/dhdefender\/ditch2.jpg\" alt=\"Ditch on 23rd July\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The third shows a  grille a little bit downstream from here. You can see various bits of plants and debris forming a bit of a barrier around the front of the grille. But to the right of the picture you can see some of the stuff that a resident had already removed from the ditch &#8211; it filled two 80-litre sacks. Without his efforts, would the grille have been completely blocked? Would the ditch have overflowed?<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i25.photobucket.com\/albums\/c96\/dhdefender\/ditch3.jpg\" alt=\"Grille \" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We were expecting the ditch near Laburnum Way to be cleaned out today, but for some reason that wasn&#8217;t done. In any case the heavy rain has probably swept away any effluent that was there. 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