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 ?

Ken

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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 ?

Ken


Your 'stream' may already be curvetted and in a huge concrete tube :-((

I worked for a builder in Leicester in the 60's and this is what they did
before building an estate :-((

Mike


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Your 'stream' may already be curvetted and in a huge concrete tube :-((

Try 'culvetted' Spell check wanted to do something different.

Mike


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I worked for a builder in Leicester in the 60's and this is what they did
before building an estate :-((

Mike


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On Sun, 29 Apr 2007 'Mike' wrote:

Your 'stream' may already be curvetted and in a huge concrete tube :-((

Try 'culvetted' Spell check wanted to do something different.



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On Sun, 29 Apr 2007 'Mike' wrote:

Your 'stream' may already be curvetted and in a huge concrete tube :-((

Try 'culvetted' Spell check wanted to do something different.

Try "culverted".

David

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On Sun, 29 Apr 2007 'Mike' wrote:

Your 'stream' may already be curvetted and in a huge concrete tube :-((

Try 'culvetted' Spell check wanted to do something different.

Try "culverted".

David

:-))

That's what I was looking for thank you.

You know when a word doesn't look right and I couldn't see what that was
:-(( and spellcheque(G) was as good as a chocolate teapot :-(

Mike


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On Sun, 29 Apr 2007 18:17:01 +0100, "'Mike'" wrote
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"'Mike'" wrote in message
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Your 'stream' may already be curvetted and in a huge concrete tube :-((

Try 'culvetted' Spell check wanted to do something different.

Or even more correctly, you could try "culverted"

The noun is "culvert"


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On Sun, 29 Apr 2007 18:17:01 +0100, "'Mike'" wrote
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"'Mike'" wrote in message
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Your 'stream' may already be curvetted and in a huge concrete tube :-((

Try 'culvetted' Spell check wanted to do something different.

Or even more correctly, you could try "culverted"

The noun is "culvert"


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Someone picked me up on that later :-))

Many thanks

Mike


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'Mike' wrote

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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 ?

Your 'stream' may already be curvetted and in a huge concrete tube :-((

I worked for a builder in Leicester in the 60's and this is what they did
before building an estate :-((

That's what largely happened to the river Fleet isn't it?
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Roger Hunt

Roger Hunt writes
'Mike' wrote

wrote in message
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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 ?

Your 'stream' may already be curvetted and in a huge concrete tube :-((

I worked for a builder in Leicester in the 60's and this is what they did
before building an estate :-((

That's what largely happened to the river Fleet isn't it?

It does sound likely that it's culverted. Streams don't go underground
of their own accord except in limestone country.
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Kay

"K" wrote...
Roger Hunt writes
'Mike' wrote

wrote in message
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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 ?

Your 'stream' may already be curvetted and in a huge concrete tube :-((

I worked for a builder in Leicester in the 60's and this is what they did
before building an estate :-((

That's what largely happened to the river Fleet isn't it?

It does sound likely that it's culverted. Streams don't go underground of
their own accord except in limestone country.

Guess why the River Mole has that name, and it's not a tiny little stream.

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Bob H
17mls W. of London.UK

It does sound likely that it's culverted. Streams don't go underground
of
their own accord except in limestone country.

didn't you read Enid Blyton as a kid? Any avid reader will know that there
are hundreds of underground streams all over the place, usually flowing
along secret passages

--
Hayley
(gardening on well drained, alkaline clay in Somerset)

K wrote
Roger Hunt writes
'Mike' wrote

wrote in message
egroups.com...
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 ?

Your 'stream' may already be curvetted and in a huge concrete tube :-((

I worked for a builder in Leicester in the 60's and this is what they did
before building an estate :-((

That's what largely happened to the river Fleet isn't it?

It does sound likely that it's culverted. Streams don't go underground
of their own accord except in limestone country.

I dimly remember a documentary about streams and rivers in a part of
Yugoslavia, I think it was, that went below and emerged further on, and
disappeared again etc, in that Limestone terrain. I think the prog was
done by caving people who knew the likelihood of good exploration down
there (somewhere).
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Roger Hunt

In article , Roger Hunt
writes

I think the prog was
done by caving people who knew the likelihood of good exploration down
there (somewhere).


Well that makes Kay a likely expert
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You could try dowsing:

http://www.leyman.demon.co.uk/Dowsing.html

I am being serious, it can be incredibly accurate. I have seen it used with
empty Bic Biros for handles but with copper wire.

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wrote in message
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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 ?

Ken




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