On Sunday, August 25, 2019 at 7:19:06 PM UTC+1, charles wrote:
In article 20190825184720.6e902143@Mars,
Rob Morley wrote:
On Sun, 25 Aug 2019 03:03:08 -0700 (PDT)
George Miles wrote:

Could we force the farmer to dig out the watercourse and bury a pipe
to drain it as it was originally?

Could you arrange to have it done yourselves, quickly and without asking
anyone else?

Have you contacted the Environment Agency?

not yet ...

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