Incised Drainage Erosion Rehabilitation - Headcut Repair with Zuni Bowls

[@alskoy]

I really want to see these when its raining.

[@futurecaredesign]

These kinds of videos are gold for me as I am currently working to rehabilitate an even more eroded landscape in Greece.

[@7thGenerationDesign]

I hope you'll have the opportunity to record and share your process with us :) Greece is a starkly beautiful place, but definitely some soil conservation work to be done! Best of luck in all you are doing.

[@milkrecu]

Excellent. There are lots of places that need this, hopefully less severe. Great walk through and demonstration.

[@WenRolland]

This is awesome work ! Thanks for sharing. :)

[@barryeasterling3792]

Outstanding videos. I live in SE Ohio, Apalacia, rolling hills at the end push of the ice age where South Eastern OH, Western PA and WV all three states come together in the same spot. This terrain is very hilly. A 50 year old plus well on my farm is dying. I have found that I have a large number of healthy underground springs (running 7/24 with good flow rates) that I am in the process of slowly developing. Your videos on Spring Development and flow of water with erosion considerations have been excellent and extremely helpful and useful!! What college did you go too to gain this level of education is my first question?
Secondly in your videos you mention things like Silk fabric, Certain vinyld/plastic wall head for collection boxes etc. Do you have listed a material list some where on the most common items needed for developing natural springs in the woods? Again, thank you for the videos!!! So far they have been extremely extreme helpful and all of your construction theories make perfect sense!!!

[@7thGenerationDesign]

Hi Barry,
Thank you for your kinds words, we're glad the videos have been helpful. Definitely didn't learn any of this in college - just self study for what we're passionate about - namely healing fractured landscapes and restoring them to healthy hydrological function to whatever degree is feasible in this case.
For the springs, we have used the pre-cast springbox sold by Carolina Water Tanks: www.carolinawatertank.com/ProductDetails.asp?ProductCode=SB
For the collection wall, you can buy them pre-made and drilled, but I would encourage you to cut your own from a potable quality HDPE 55 gallon drum - the middle 14 or so inches will make you a 72" long by 14" high collection wall, much cheaper than purchasing one pre-drilled and cut, and also you'll have more options, as no two spring set ups are alike.
If you need a barrage/collection wall longer than 72", we've used bamboo rhizome barrier in the past to good effect: lewisbamboo.com/products/bamboo-barrier-100-36
As far as the silk, I might have mispoke on that - I'm not exactly sure what I may have referred to, but we do use geotextile fabric to wrap various parts of the collection system - from an entire 55 gallon drum "sump" type collection system, to just the intake pipes themselves. It is also very useful in capping the spring heads to keep finer material from entering the collection/filter package. Depending on how much you need, something simple like this might do: www.homedepot.com/p/BECKETT-6-ft-x-12-ft-Underlayment-for-Pond-Liners-UL612HD/100001948 or you can get much larger quantities like this: www.siltmanagementsupplies.com/geotex-matting-8-oz-sz-15-x-300-non-woven.html
I hope that helps - if you have any other questions feel free to reach out - I've recently moved to Tennessee and am now operating under the name Sovereign Homestead Design - [e-mail] if you have further questions. Wes is still running 7th Gen on the west coast. Cheers!

[@SuerteDelMolinoFarm]

Greetings from the LooseNatural farm in Andalusia Spain

[@7thGenerationDesign]

Greetings from Central CA, USA!

[@insAneTunA]

Looks familiar 👍

[@ragairboy]

Nice set up

[@JohnMarsing]

Excellent walkthrough and explanation. Is there a follow up video?

[@mustlovedogs272]

Just line it with non woven permeable geofabric, put 3 4" "high octane" corrogated french drain pipe from Baughman Tile Co. in, and then fill with 2-3" roundstone and be done with it.

[@muffinpoots]

puuuuuuppy.