Even more relevant today than it was when this video was uploaded. Thanks! We tore out our lawn and installed rain gutters and rain barrels, but we still have a problem with runoff. Your video gave me some great ideas.
I love this stuff. I have built my yard using all of these principles - however, this year we are currently 11 inches ahead with rainfall so far in May. My house is below our street; I harvest water from the street as well as what falls on my yard and house, and this year there is too much water! I am having water intrusion in my basement, so I am currently looking for a way to re-route the water I pull from the street so that it bypasses the area right in front of my house.
Curious if you have any info on how I can work with my property and my neighbors to help recharge our groundwater supplies. Our area is mainly 11 acre's and larger parcels and most of us the area's aren't developed. Just open land. So we're open to do whatever with it. We all have low flowing wells. 1 gallon per minute in our area with well depths of 70 feet in my immediate area. A couple of my neighbors had to go down 1,000+ feet. We are in Calaveras county in Burson, CA. We don't have much soil depth (inches) Not sure what's under it (some kind of rock/granite), but when it rains the water stays on top of the soil or flows other places even when we set up berms to try to get in to infiltrate the soil. Have one area that has a huge water fall off a hill when it rains, flowing around 50 gallons per second. It'd be great to harness that water and get it into the ground where our wells are located. Any ideas on how we get get the water to go thru the ground? Would taking a tractor and "ripping" the ground to open it up like 6 feet deep break it up enough to let the water flow into the ground? Know of any sources to “model or image” the terrain underground so I can find out how deep the rock goes so I can get the water to seep into the ground instead of just stay on the surface. Any ideas on who to talk to, to analyse what the ground looks like to our well depths so we can get the water to percolate thru our soils instead of runoff into a creek a ways away. Hopefully at a somewhat cheap price or thru a trade/barter. :) Hope to hear from ya!
Even more relevant today than it was when this video was uploaded. Thanks! We tore out our lawn and installed rain gutters and rain barrels, but we still have a problem with runoff. Your video gave me some great ideas.
Great video that covers residential, local governments, and school district audiences! Thank you!
Great soundtrack, also great speakers and case studies.
very nice!
I love this stuff. I have built my yard using all of these principles - however, this year we are currently 11 inches ahead with rainfall so far in May. My house is below our street; I harvest water from the street as well as what falls on my yard and house, and this year there is too much water! I am having water intrusion in my basement, so I am currently looking for a way to re-route the water I pull from the street so that it bypasses the area right in front of my house.
Amazing, thanks for sharing it!
Looking to do some landscaping projects and make a more eco friendly yard. Thanks for the ideas!
Curious if you have any info on how I can work with my property and my neighbors to help recharge our groundwater supplies. Our area is mainly 11 acre's and larger parcels and most of us the area's aren't developed. Just open land. So we're open to do whatever with it. We all have low flowing wells. 1 gallon per minute in our area with well depths of 70 feet in my immediate area. A couple of my neighbors had to go down 1,000+ feet.
We are in Calaveras county in Burson, CA. We don't have much soil depth (inches) Not sure what's under it (some kind of rock/granite), but when it rains the water stays on top of the soil or flows other places even when we set up berms to try to get in to infiltrate the soil. Have one area that has a huge water fall off a hill when it rains, flowing around 50 gallons per second. It'd be great to harness that water and get it into the ground where our wells are located.
Any ideas on how we get get the water to go thru the ground? Would taking a tractor and "ripping" the ground to open it up like 6 feet deep break it up enough to let the water flow into the ground? Know of any sources to “model or image” the terrain underground so I can find out how deep the rock goes so I can get the water to seep into the ground instead of just stay on the surface.
Any ideas on who to talk to, to analyse what the ground looks like to our well depths so we can get the water to percolate thru our soils instead of runoff into a creek a ways away. Hopefully at a somewhat cheap price or thru a trade/barter. :)
Hope to hear from ya!
Hey, just wondering how your land is progressing?
Any questions? Answers? Smart-ass remarks?
Multiple times showing people drinking government water directly from the tap like it's clean. Ewww.