Enhancing farm dams for drought resilience, productivity and biodiversity across the ACT
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- Опубліковано 4 жов 2024
- A short video by Richard Snashall explaining the importance of farm dam management and how dams can be enhanced to improve drought resilience, productivity and biodiversity with ACT NRM's Dr Martin Henery, Dr Kyeelee Driver and local ACT farmers, John and Carol Lilleyman of Amberly Farms.
Water security is critical for farm viability and profitability. Farm dams are considered important assets across the rural landscape providing water for stock and for irrigation and they can also act as a critical refuge for wildlife. However, not all dams are equal if and poorly managed dams can become silty and turbid, with decreased ability to retain water with reduced usefulness for both livestock and wildlife.
This video gave me hope for the future of our planet!
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Use the dam water to grow vegetables in an instant vegetable patch it is a little costly but the watet saving is amazing .
Water in north east corner of a land was the vaastu principle of farm dam and natural rain water retention structures.
As Australian's we have a bad tendency to over clear land,
and especially along water courses and farmers dams are to small they always build duck ponds not dams,
a dam is meant to be 50 or 100 metres long an atleast 20 to 30 metres wide
We have had a couple of good years of rain an nobody or the government has built major water infrastructure to protect against the next drought
It's time Australia dug hundreds of kilometres of water channels around Australia in each district,make the 200 or 300 metres wide an about 50 to 80 metres deep an do this every were to have adequate water
Wouldn't it make sense to reestablish the ponds that occurred naturally along the drainage?
Put a to fence around the pond then plant foiliage inside so that will clear up the drainage
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Well having that Bloke onto your property, threw a wrench into the fan. Kinda like shot you in your foot, for attempting to do good for your cattle. I'm guessing you will have to put a well onto the property, to pump water out of the ground now. In the droughts, cattle can smell water very easily, so you may have to keep them cow far away from your ponds. More mess than it's worth. So it seems.
Still not better than the approach initiated by the late Peter Andrews
Why can't you integrate these ponds into an Andrews' style landscape?
@@chipthomas4169 Because of the Australian government rules
Looks like a pond, not a dam.
Um, technically that’s not a Dam, that’s a SWALE.
Come on, are you guy’s college professors, and professionals?
Gets the terms correct please.
Actually, it's a pond.
And the pond was formed by building a dam
Lay tree prunings in the dam for frog egg laying. They have something to cling to.
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cows and chicken socalled biodiversity😅