drainage district

collocation in English

meaningsofdrainageanddistrict

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drainage
noun[U]
uk
/ˈdreɪ.nɪdʒ/us
/ˈdreɪ.nɪdʒ/
the system of water or waste liquids flowing away from somewhere into the ground or ...
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district
noun[C]
uk
/ˈdɪs.trɪkt/us
/ˈdɪs.trɪkt/
an area of a country or town that has fixed borders that are used for official purposes, or that has a particular feature that makes it different from ...
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(Definition ofdrainageanddistrictfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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When one comes to the people involved simply by owning houses in adrainagedistrict, the principle ceases to have much meaning.
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We provide that a separate fraction will be determined by drainage boards for eachdrainagedistrict.
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The same observation applies to the acquisition of power to undertake drainage schemes within or without adrainagedistrict.
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Of this total 2,892,000 acres are situated in existing drainage areas, while the balance of 1,370,000 acres is outside anydrainagedistrict.
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Will they still remain to be charged over the wholedrainagedistrictand can then be recovered by a fresh charge?
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It would be possible in some cases for a request to be taken out of adrainagedistrictto be refused by the river board.
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Of this total, 2,892,000 acres are situated in existing drainage areas while the balance of 1470,000 acres is outside anydrainagedistrict.
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Of this total 2,892,000 acres are situate in existing drainage areas, while the balance of 1,470,000 acres is outside anydrainagedistrict.
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Some of the roads are partly outside and others wholly outside an internaldrainagedistrict.
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Under this clause people may enter and survey any land within thedrainagedistrict, including the interior of mills.
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But what is the criterion which determines whether land is within or without adrainagedistrict?
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The present proposal is to give the same powers of forcing inefficient landowners to look after drainage outside the area of a localdrainagedistrict.
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The boundary of thedrainagedistrictruns at that point, roughly, along the 100-ft.
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The initiative in seeking changes indrainagedistrictboundaries rests with the water authority or the drainage ratepayers.
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I am speaking mainly from the point of view of householders who own property within thedrainagedistrict.
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First, there would be an end to all the anomalies of thedrainagedistrictboundaries.
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There is a house which pays its share of the internal drainage rate, being, according to the hypothesis, in an internaldrainagedistrict.
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As the law now stands it is for the river board to take the initiative for a change of boundaries of an internaldrainagedistrict.
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There is the catchment board of the new type, covering a whole catchment area, and there is the localdrainagedistrictor internaldrainagedistrict.
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A hereditament in the internaldrainagedistrictwould pay on a third of its annual value.
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