FENLAND FLOODING
Anxious Watch Maintained
(British Official Wireless.) Rugby, March 22. Although the general situation in the flooded Fen area is slightly more favourable. it is still being watched anxiously. Tlie water level it) the Wolney Washes is two inches above the maximum in 1928. but the waters have receded bv an appreciable amount! from the peak of the present critical period. An all-night watch was kept on tlie embankments of (he old Bedford River, and at a dam where there is danger of Hie banks crumbling with the receding of Hie waters. Catchment board officials are satisfied that at the moment the position is well lit hand, but they point out that next Thursday and Friday, with the coming of high tides. Hicir efforts will probably have to be redoubled. In I heir light against the floods Hie Fenlauders have been greatly assisted by troops brought into Hie area.
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Dominion, Volume 30, Issue 152, 24 March 1937, Page 11
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150FENLAND FLOODING Dominion, Volume 30, Issue 152, 24 March 1937, Page 11
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