The area saw major changes in its hydrology in the 1630s, as a result of the drainage works of Cornelius Vermuyden.
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Through drainage works the monks reclaimed land in the swampy environs of the monastery, implemented three-field crop rotation and laid out vineyards.
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In the meantime, much antiquated legislation which tended to restrict trade and industry was abolished; roads, canals and drainage works were established.
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Although a number of private attempts were made at drainage works in the 1860s and 70s they were met with little success.
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Internal drainage work as well as volunteers who cleaned out gutters and culverts helped stem the usual backup in the rural subdivision.
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In the 17th and 18th centuries further drainage work was undertaken including digging a series of rhynes, or ditches and larger drainage canals.
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They have been arrested for trying to sell a life-size Roman statue of a scribe they dug up while doing some drainage work.
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Following the 2003 U . S . invasion of Iraq, embankments and drainage works were broken open, and the marshes began to reflood.
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In medieval times Coologe Lough stretched all the way north up to and including Camagh Lake, before being reduced by later drainage works.
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The other was that the funding for the drainage work should be levied over a much wider area than had previously been the case.
