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.