Disruption has been caused by work on a new tram line, as well as separate drainage and gas works.

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In Russia such drainage is reckoned to free 160m tonnes of the gas every year.

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Additionally, because of poor drainage, water ponds formed on the VML. These water ponds produced more methane gas, and the subsequent runoff traveled back into the VML and the Speedway Landfill.

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