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Mad pump
4:23
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Recordist's notes
On this evening because of a storm, this place is flooded. Since monthes here, some people construct homes. As there's a lot of water in the bedrock, actually enormous holes in the ground, some big pumps are installed. When it's near to be empty in the bedrocks holes, the pipes make strange mad sounds of reflux. The pipes are recorded near the river, where water is thrown.
About the place
Louvain-la-Neuve is a town of about 29,521 people in Wallonia, Belgium. OttoAnna lists 351 field recordings from here.
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Sources & credits
- “Mont-Saint-Guibert, Belgique - Mad pump” by Vincent Duseigne – CC BY 3.0 · radio aporee ::: maps via Internet Archive
- Reverse geocoding: GeoNames – CC BY 4.0