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Works, to the cost of IR £750,000, were undertaken on the river in the late 1940s and early 1950s to improve drainage in the river’s catchment area. As part of the
Arterial Drainage Scheme, designed to tackle poor drainage caused by Ireland’s relatively low-lying topography, the river was deepened
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An investigation of the effects of an arterial drainage scheme on the rainfall-runoff transformation behaviour of the Brosna catchment in
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and the discharge of untreated sewage in the
Mullingar area during storm conditions. There have also been discharges of pollutants, whether accidental or otherwise, such as one filmed at the bridge of Clonmore industrial estate in Mullingar.
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and widened, leaving the river with the high banks distinctive of many of the rivers in the Irish midlands that received this treatment. More recently, in late 2008 the river was diverted from the
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155:1,248 km (482 sq mi)
35:Old mill on the Brosna at Kilbeggan
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412:"AAI | Physical Landscape"
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1372:Tributaries
1290:Ballisodare
1084:Broadmeadow
852:Grand Canal
847:Royal Canal
837:Boyle canal
699:Tarmonbarry
652:Settlements
322:brown trout
290:Ballycumber
49:Native name
1494:Categories
1239:Blackwater
1226:Celtic Sea
1108:Glencullen
1097:Castletown
794:Flows into
669:Drumshanbo
354:References
296:. East of
266:Lough Owel
239:Lough Owel
152:Basin size
1066:Irish Sea
679:Jamestown
633:Tipperary
618:Westmeath
608:Roscommon
278:Kilbeggan
270:Mullingar
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241:north of
164:Discharge
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41:Etymology
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579:Ireland
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272:, into
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74:Country
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