Complaints having been made in the Golborne Urban District of Lancashire that oil’ had contaminated the water, 65,000 gallons of water were wasted in one day in a vain effort to get rid of it.
When farm land is flooded by sea water the earthworms, which aerate the soil and improve it, are killed off. When a large area of Essex was flooded 40 years ago, it was two years before the worms began to return.
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Dominion, Volume 31, Issue 241, 8 July 1938, Page 17
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