Burst pipe floods wildlife meadow for fourth time
Repeated flooding of a key conservation site in Oxfordshire leaves a charity frustrated.
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""It's already starting to stagnate, so that's serious.""
— Catriona Bass , Activist
""We planned on the 1st September to do this massive restoration project to deal with the previous floods and now we're not going to be able to.""
— Catriona Bass , Activist
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Repeated flooding of a key conservation site in Oxfordshire leaves a charity frustrated.
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