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  • From: Suraj Kumar <suraj@sunson.in>
  • To: permaculture <permaculture@lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: [permaculture] Rainwater harvesting pond story
  • Date: Mon, 10 Aug 2009 20:58:15 +0530

Hi Guys,

On our tiny acreage farm (1.86 acres), we recently finished building a
3 stepped 3825 sq.ft. sized pond with a max depth of 22 ft. We had
three goals:

1. Store water for irrigation needs during the dry-seasons (post
monsoon and then pre-monsoon)
2. Conserve the constructed pits / wells / dams / hedges / whatever
structure
3. Storing run-away water / Retrieving stored water must be doable
using as little energy as possible

We rented out a backhoe excavator (JCB-3CX) and two tipper tractors
for this job.

http://wiki.sunson.in/rain_water_harvesting explains the design in
terms of satisfying these above three goals.

Please feel free to let out your comments!

Cheers,

-Suraj

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our Inability to Understand the Exponential Function"
Dr. Albert Bartlett




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