Pumping at Great Shefford 2
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Image: © Des Blenkinsopp Taken: 4 Mar 2013
This is the outfall of the pump installation shown in Image The Shefford Stream is culverted beneath part of the village, but the structures are insufficient for high flows and flooding has happened in the past. Some of the water is being pumped out of the stream into a pipeline that bypasses the village.