Category: water design
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Picture update 2021
Well, I have no excuses for what is actually an incomplete coverage of all that has been going on this past year, but I did take sporadic photos and will try and fill in the actual progressions of the various projects. OK, I think that’s enough for one night. Obviously there was a lot more…
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Picture Update 06,2021
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Dams , 12/29/2018, Primer and Update
The red lines are general property boundaries, tan/yellow lines represent earthworks dams and swales, the blue areas are potential water stopped and held by the Earthworks according to general topography. These are the dams and ponds I’ll be referring to here. The general topography is going downhill from lower right to upper left, and the…
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More Rain
20th May, 2018 I hear about deserts that get all their rain in a few short (but often powerful) episodes, and three days later it’s impossible to believe there was ever water in dried river beds and barren landscapes. Here in VA we had another 24 hour period with around 4 inches of rain,…
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Water Design
Main frame water design tactics need to be high on the priority list when starting any new project. The first thing we think about when considering whether to buy a property, develop a property, or rehabilitate a property has to be water design. Conventional water design assumed large amounts of fossil fuel for operation and…
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The Fall
September 6, 2017 Walking back from the fish pond in the rain, I had this new sense of well being, and not just because of the relief from drought and hot temperatures. Of course this time of year there is always the possibility of monsoons, or hurricanes dropping large amounts of water all at once,…
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The daily grind
August 24th For whatever reason I woke in the middle of the night and never got back to sleep. So after much tossing and turning the light finally inspired me to get up–that plus Lucky whining at me. So most of the day was tedious, although I was able to get a few things under…