Bill Zeedyk and induced meandering in Altar Valley, Arizona part one 1-14-2012

Bill Zeedyk describing some of the aims and coming effects of volunteer-installed on-the-ground work at the Elkhorn/Las Delicias Watershed Restoration Demonstration Project site in Altar Valley, Arizona by using induced meandering within the water channel with one-rock-high baffles and one-rock dams seeded with native restoration seed mixes.
Induced meandering uses baffles to purposely nudge the water's flow within a channel to erode the opposite bank in order to widen and lengthen the channel as it reduces the channel's steepness, and reduces the speed of the flowing water and its ability to carry sediment. Sediment from the eroded bank is then caught downstream by a one-rock dam and another baffle nudging water against the other bank of the channel.
The intent of the project was to reverse the trend of the down-cutting water channels with ephemeral flow by shifting from erosion of soil to deposition of soil.
It has done that.
Filmed 1-14-2012 in the first phase of the project's build out.
See before and after photos over a span of 10 years at my blog post:
"Shifting dehydrating, degrading ephemeral water channels to better-vegetated, rehydrating, agrading channels with Bill Zeedyk-directed efforts in Altar Valley, Arizona"
at:
www.harvestingrainwater.com/2...
And check out the Altar Valley Conservation Alliance website, and webpages on the project at:
altarvalleyconservation.org/o...
The Alliance coordinated the project.
Get more info on how to implement such water harvesting in Bill Zeedyk's book "Let the Water Do the Work: Induced Meandering, an Evolving Method for Restoring Incised Channels"
and
www.harvestingrainwater.com/
where you can buy Brad's award-winning books, "Rainwater Harvesting for Drylands and Beyond" at deep discount direct from Brad at:
www.harvestingrainwater.com/s...
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My apologies for the loud noises in the background from the working crews moving rock and building the rock structures.

[@ncooty]

Thanks for posting.
(Of course, next to any on-site presentation, there's always a guy who has to rearrange his hammers in a bucket loader.)

[@soniawoolley366]

YEP ...

[@deezynar]

I'd love to see more before and after photos of different places which have been given this treatment.
This is interesting, and important information.
Thanks for posting.

[@ronniemcmaster8657]

Great interview. I wish the workers had had enough respect to take a quick break for it.

[@futurecaredesign]

Extremely important information that deserves a longer interview.

[@releventhurt]

Thats incredible 👏

[@sammorales3528]

That ruckus tho!!! 🤣

[@kevinfranck6520]

Yeah, loved the info, but better planning to wait and do heavy noisy work after camera is OFF

[@808zhu]

Thanks for uploading.
This man is giving an interview, by the way..

[@leedza]

That noise though.

[@remoconan8720]

yeah the guys in the background are your typical manual labour robots they have no idea that this information is important but really the camera guy could have told the interviewer to move on further down from the noise so yeah there are solutions to even this; but i agree with the comments someone said that these are what beavers do; nature is the original designer for these systems and this man seems to have observed this and is sharing it albeit very loud background noise!

[@briangarrow448]

I am sure the next time you do an interview you will politely ask the crew to stop working in the area of your interview so the public can hear what is being talked about.

[@Axelcat11]

Relax Sunshine

[@Axelcat11]

So the machine ran for 30 seconds. You're a champ princess

[@allanegleston4931]

wonder if he read the works of viktor shauburgger.

[@Alexander-rq9he]

Geez I couldn’t get thru this! Valuable information but couldn’t you just tell whoever was making all that racket to stfu!?

[@part-timeprep5932]

It stopped after a little while. There is a good portion past that with diagrams but no sound to explain the project then a follow-up pic of some results.

[@Purpletuty]

Can anyone visiting help?

[@sunlight8299]

Looks like the kind of thing beavers do but with rocks instead of trees

[@soniawoolley366]

Very disrespectful of the person making all the noise whilst trying to interview Mr Zeedyk ...

[@whitehouse223]

hard to understand dialog , workers should have halted work and equipment