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1. Flick 🇬🇧 (flick@spinster.xyz)'s status on Thursday, 13-Jul-2023 06:27:28 JST Flick 🇬🇧

   Back “before the [mains] water came”, this was an incredibly reliable drinking water spring. In hot summers when the wells dried up, people would bring milk churns here to fill them up.

   Something must have shifted underground, though, because now the water just runs down the next road over and causes trouble in winter. And no one needs the water any more, so it’s never been fixed.

   • Flick 🇬🇧 (flick@spinster.xyz)'s status on Thursday, 13-Jul-2023 06:27:27 JST Flick 🇬🇧

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     I learnt this evening that the spring was called Redway Spout.

     The water came in 1984. The electricity in 1962.

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   • Disinformation Purveyor :verified_think: (thatguyoverthere@shitposter.club)'s status on Thursday, 13-Jul-2023 06:27:27 JST Disinformation Purveyor :verified_think:

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     @Flick I wonder if the fact that no one is pulling water from wells or the spring has led to slower absorption of ground water or something.
   • Flick 🇬🇧 (flick@spinster.xyz)'s status on Thursday, 13-Jul-2023 06:39:25 JST Flick 🇬🇧

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     • Disinformation Purveyor :verified_think:

     @thatguyoverthere Hmm, maybe in places?

     This particular one I doubt, it would have just flowed into the stream if it wasn’t collected.

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