With the stimulus money on the way, Moran has chosen projects she thinks can get easily pass through the bureaucracy, such as tearing down a fence or cleaning up a drainage ditch.
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The junction work, to reduce flooding near the M4, included ditch clearing, pipe cleaning and upgrading of grills around the A33.
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