Large compensation payments were made to landowners affected by the excavations and, in Leinster Gardens to the east, the frontages of two houses demolished to make way for the line were reconstructed to restore the appearance of a terrace of houses.

EPA site-specific soil sampling result letters went out to 40 landowners affected by the Yellowstone River oil spill.

Greening also owned Dam Number 808 which routinely flooded areas below it until former State Senator Ruben Ayala put in a flood control channel at the personal expense of landowners affected by Greening's flooding.

The majority of the trails, about 85 percent, are on private land, and the local clubs have obtained permission from every landowner affected.

Flurzwang became questionable for the landowners affected after the introduction of clover farming and later potato and beet farming.

But in a 55-page decision, Judge S. Barrett Hickman of the State Supreme Court in Carmel denied New York City's motion to dismiss the complaints of landowners affected by the regulations.

The majority of landowners affected were in favour and a contractor, a Mr Hale, agreed to carry out the works for £40,000.

Backing in Congress The Supreme Court is considering one such case from South Carolina, and a proposal to require the Government to compensate landowners affected by environmental regulations was approved by the Senate last summer and is pending in the House.

In recent months they have ruled that landowners affected by environmental regulations are entitled to compensation.

With over 1,600 hectares, the Nature Reserve Society was one of the landowners affected and they refused to accept the Soltau-Lüneburg Agreement from the outset, although their opposition came to nothing.