Three of these drowned after a carriage overturned into a drainage ditch. Pullen entrenched himself in a drainage ditch. One person died in South Carolina after drowning in a drainage ditch. Severe flooding in 1952 prompted Ducks Unlimited to construct a drainage ditch. Wilder's men eventually held back the Confederate advance, fighting from behind a drainage ditch. It became airborne above a drainage ditch and crashed further on. The division is still partly visible by a drainage ditch along Saxis Road. Cpl Fardy temporarily deployed his men along a convenient drainage ditch. Until 1972, the company simply dumped its untreated waste into a drainage ditch. Snodgrass gets propelled into a drainage ditch, taking hours to die from internal bleeding. These usually had a drainage ditch which was riprapped with stone to prevent erosion.