1986 - Sour Lane Pumping Station - Thorne, UK
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dtrebilc
N 53° 37.277 W 000° 59.058
30U E 633316 N 5943275
This building is a pumping station in a flood control area.
Waymark Code: WMVV01
Location: Yorkshire, United Kingdom
Date Posted: 05/26/2017
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This area is relatively flat with a number of large rivers and canals flowing through it.
In times of high rainfall the area is succeptable to flooding and the area has a number of drainage channels and other facilities. The area is managed by DANVM Drainage Commissioners.
"District drainage commissioners (DDCs) are internal drainage boards set up under local legislation rather than the Land Drainage Act 1991 and its predecessor legislation. The majority of the provisions of the Land Drainage Acts, do however, apply to such commissioners and they are statutory public bodies."
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The building is located in The Metropolitan Borough of Doncaster which is a metropolitan borough of South Yorkshire in Yorkshire and the Humber Region of England. The word DANVM is the name of the drainage commissioners that are responsible for this pumping station is the old Roman name for Doncaster.
The pumping station stands next to an embankment of the River Don, the river that gives Doncaster its name.
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