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  • From: "Scott Hitchins" <ScottH@wcig.org.au>
  • To: <permaculture@lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: RE: [permaculture] flushing out
  • Date: Tue, 14 May 2002 09:06:41 +1000

This seems to make sense to me: Not having had any volcanic activity here in
Australia for a few hundred thousand years, its not a profile I'm familiar
with; my little patch of the planet is alluvial silt/clay which is pretty
good at holding on to things - I'm in a housing estate on former
Market-gardens: Great soil when you get some organic matter worked-in but
god(dess) only knows what they've sprayed in the past. I've heard some local
horror stories regarding pregnant women working in the fields in the past;
strictly anecdotal though, so who knows. I just keep piling-on the organic
material as a buffer.

Scott Hitchins
Employment Consultant
WCIG Employment Services
151 Nicholson Street
Footscray 3011.
Tel.9689 3437
Fx.9689 9093
scotth@wcig.org.au


-----Original Message-----
From: John Schinnerer [mailto:eco_living@yahoo.com]
Sent: Monday, 13 May 2002 5:17 PM
To: permaculture@lists.ibiblio.org
Subject: RE: [permaculture] flushing out


Aloha,

> Yes, it would probably flush-out pretty quickly, but I think it would
> be preferable to try to remove the nasties before the water leaves
> the land, even if this did involve some earth /lavaworks:

I agree, in principle...and, if it is simply ripped lava with little or
no soil on top, the water leaves the land pretty directly downwards
through the rip zone and into the mostly ever-present cracks and
fissures and tubes and chambers and so on. It's a very porous place...
:-)

Plantings over the whole area would probably have best chance to uptake
some. There's far less chance (than most other situations I can think
of) that plantings on (for example) the lower boundaries of the
property will ever touch (to clean) any of the water that infiltrates
uphill of them.


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John Schinnerer, MA
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