Monet purchased additional land with a water meadow.
Flood banks could be knocked down and water meadows created once again.
A wood cleared for a field or reforested, or a water meadow drained, will be much more valuable even if the farmer forgoes the grant.
They would become a kind of water meadow as they have in the south.
That is the soft flood-plain approach or the water meadow approach.
How does one cost the maintenance of an ancient water meadow which cannot be restored were it to be destroyed?
We then have the water meadow situation, not all of which, unfortunately, is still working.
It was built in the 19th century and comprised typical terraced houses on an old water meadow.
