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Mike Lyle · 30-04-2007, 03:40 PM posted to uk.rec.gardening

wrote:
A neighbour recently told me that she could hear an underground stream
flowing beneath her garden, and suggested maybe it flowed across mine
too. Then someone sent me an old map of the West Hampstead area in
London which shows an underground stream passing more or less along
the boundary between the bottom of my garden, and the field next
door. If the stream lies on my side of the boundary and isn't too
deep, it might be nice to uncover it and create a natural pool. I'll
need some kind of survey to pinpoint it, of course - has anyone got
any experience with reliable people/companies who do this kind of
thing ?

The first people to talk to are the Council: they should know, perhaps
even exactly. As somebody says further downthread, if you can hear it
it's probably piped (a cave seems unlikely) and to be left alone. In
Hampstead, it could be the Kilburn (lower down called the Westbourne,
etc) or at any rate a tributary. But the main reason to ask the Council
is to find out if it's part of the foul sewage system.

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Mike.

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