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Nearly half the soils of England and Wales on which cereals are grown have a clayey texture and many are subject to seasonal waterlogging. Use of close spaced mole drains 1–3m apart drawn at about 0.5m depth and discharging into permeable gravel fill above pipe drains on a 40–50m spacing is considered to be the most effective way of draining such land (Trafford and Massey, 1975).
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Goss, M.J., Howse, K.R., Colbourn, P., Harris, G.L. (1986). Nitrate in Water Draining from Arable Land Under Autumn Sown Crops and the Influence of Cultivation. In: Smith, K.V.H., Rycroft, D.W. (eds) Hydraulic Design in Water Resources Engineering: Land Drainage. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-22014-6_43
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