Stormwater-harvesting eddy basins for free irrigation, flood control, drought-proofing, & more! HD
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- Опубліковано 26 тра 2023
- Brad Lancaster shows how simple, neighborhood forester-led efforts create stormwater-harvesting eddy basins for free irrigation, flood control, drought-proofing, food production, & more!
Includes one-rock dam/rock mulch rundown hybrids and baffles in an urban context.
Turns flooding problem into a free irrigation resource that also helps recharge the aquifer and other local waters.
NOTE: This is the high-resolution version of this video. I removed the previous low-resolution version I'd mistakenly uploaded three months ago, and replaced it with this one on 5-27-23.
Filmed September 2023 in the West University Neighborhood, Tucson, AZ
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Passive water-harvesting design by Brad Lancaster
Expert backhoe work by Little John Exacavating
Expert rockwork and finishing work of the earthworks by Dryland Design
Planting by Neighborhood Foresters volunteers
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This is amazing! More of these, everywhere!
Yer BACK!!! Been wondering where you've been, if you've been okay.
People in SoCal really need your content with all the snow melt coming off of the heavy spring snows this year.
You need to show them how farmers and ranchers can benefit from these methods, you must break the granila curtain.
Share my books (available at deep discount direct from me at my website) and resources with them. I can't be everywhere.
Books available in link below:
www.harvestingrainwater.com/shop/
I've written my books and produced my many resources so people everywhere can experiment, learn, and spread their resulting knowledge along with mine.
Such a great science/engineering technique! I love it!
It's been a while! Happy to see you again !!
Brad, I recently discovered your work and am a huge fan of it! I am in the Midwest and don't live in a dryland, however with climate weirding, we're having increased periods of drought. So your lessons are so needed everywhere!
One of the things I've found really helpful in rainier areas like here in the Southeast, is Beaver Dam Analogs. Folks tend to think that BDA's have to be some huge affair like beavers would have built, but even tiny ones spanning any fold in the land will make a huge difference. Those 'rock rundowns' Brad mentioned are just BDA's made with the local materials. They might be only a foot high, but they are stopping thousands of gallons of rainwater and giving it time to percolate down into the ground. In the Midwest and Southeast, we get plenty of rain, but we let it shoot off our property as fast as it wants. By building small BDA's that are just a foot high, we can change things quite dramatically, and with only using the tiny limbs and leaves that fall naturally to the ground every year. It's the difference between being a passive observer and an active steward of the land.
Thank you for all the work you're doing!
Thanks for making another video Brad, glad to see you still planting the rain and growing abundance!
Incredible! I've read both of your books and find these videos so inspiring even though my wife and I live in the northeast with a totally different climate. Thank you!
What we do and what my books advocate works great in the northeast too, but you must use the plant palette of the northeast.
In fact, early research and examples of rain gardens in the northeast inspired and informed my practices.
Great video Brad! Thanks for all of your guidance. 😊
You and your books rock my world!!
Any tips for doing this off a dirt road?
I found out about you through your videos and others, and then your books.
Such impressive work - especially considering what is happening in the world.
What I want to know is how are your water harversting and other strategies working in all this heat, and will the hold up in the future? If so how do we get people to take note and implement these ideas in other areas. Reading a lot about how increasingly hot Phoenix has been getting - do they know about this? Can they use it?
Awesomeness
Is there anyway to divert the stormwater off a dirt road, into a large swale and then as the rainwater perculates through the ground, have a shallow well drawing from perforated pipe embedded in a gravel leech field? Some way to use the swale to filter the sediment out of the water and pump out clean water into a large tank for dry summer usage? Ever run across anything like this? I know at the end of the Arizona C.A.P. they have some large ponds that they use to recharge local aquifers/wells.
Check out links below for dirt road runoff harvesting
www.harvestingrainwater.com/gallery/water-harvesting-from-dirt-roads-image-gallery/
www.harvestingrainwater.com/2022/02/shifting-dehydrating-degrading-ephemeral-water-channels-to-better-vegetated-rehydrating-agrading-channels-with-bill-zeedyk-directed-efforts-in-altar-valley-arizona/
And of course there is still more info in my book Rainwater Harvesting for Drylands and Beyond, Volume 2 available a deep discount in the link below..
www.harvestingrainwater.com/product/rainwater-harvesting-for-drylands-and-beyond-volume-2-3rd-edition-new-2019/
Brad, I have a very old hand dug well on my farm in Oklahoma. I just had it flow tested and it's holding 400 to 600 gallons of water every week or so. Can I build swales upslope from the well to recharge it, and how far should they be from the well to keep from destabilizing it? Or is that even a concern? I looked through your books V1 and V2 but couldn't find anything on it. Do you have any resources to point me to so that I can learn more?
The key is to start at the highest points in your property and start slowing the rainfall there. One of the biggest problems in OK, as well as my neck of the woods, has been the removal of the beaver. We didn't understand just how important a role they played in keeping the water table high!
So, we can learn from them and mimic what they did. The structures that Brad builds in his urban environment do just that - using the materials he has on hand.
For those of us in high-rain areas, we can do much the same with terraces and small catch basins that can be built in a day with nothing more than a shovel. However, we have to start at the highest points and give that water time to soak down into the ground. That'll fill your well over the long term.... because that's pretty much what the beavers have been doing for milennia.
The first time I heard the term "rock mulch rundown," it didn't sit well. It links 3 seemingly incompatible words together. One rock dam is another one, right up there with blue oyster cult or latex solar beef... Thankful for these videos.
how did your systems handle last years monsoon?
Beautifully!
Nice video again Brad. Always happy to see your work. I was quite surprised to find your books in my home countries version of Amazon so I bought the two of them and have them in my hand right now. I am going to have fun reading them and possibly implementing them in my own garden. We still have more than enough rain here but we have had increased periodes of weeks that it doesn't. Food for thought.
One question for you. How bad of a problem do you have with rats in your food forest? In some places with greenery in our cities we have had problem with a rodents using it as their homes a lot. Do you have the same problem here?
Good question, I hope it gets answered. Been thinking same thing.
We have had no rat problems. We, along with our livestock, and neighbors, harvest the bulk of the food from our food forest.
Hallo Brad, I'm watching your videos from the border of The Netherlands/Germany. Great work. Your books should be distributed to schools for educational projects. Send copies to the White House !!!
Help spread the word. Folks can start with my channel
website
www.harvestingrainwater.com/
and books
www.harvestingrainwater.com/shop/
Eucalyptus suck tons of water, should be prohibited to have those invasive trees specially there where water is scarce
Think this area has flooding issues. And concrete cities don't have much water absorbing spots. So every tree helps.
Eucalyptus put extra water into rapid tree growth. They get by on less water, unlike some trees.
The real problem with many trees described as 'water-sucking' is how they are cultivated.
Many are surrounded by bare ground. Bare soil fails miserably at absorbing water. Bare ground also becomes hotter faster, so water evaporates off it quicker, along with other problems.
This is the reason why they seem 'water sucking.'
The real problem is bad ag practices, which in addition to bare soil, also includes using synthetic chemical inputs like pesticides, herbicides and straight NPK fertilizers; monocultures (one plant-type grown in a field/row as opposed to multiple types of biome-appropriate plants interplanted, often using livestock to manage weeds etc (polycultures), see Mark Shepard, restoration ag); annuals (plants that live less than a year and thus have shallow roots); overgrazing (grass is eaten to below halfway or below 7" above the soil, whichever comes first).
These reduce carbon sequestration. Carbon sequestration is needed as it bonds with soil molecules in such away that soil can drain water off the surface and retain moisture/remain moist without being too wet and causing root rot..
@@AngelMGordon The problem you describe is one that people don't ever really think about -- trying to solve one problem only creates another. Yes, the Eucalyptus will absorb a lot of water, but it's a non-native and potentially invasive tree that doesn't actually serve the local ecosystem. Dr. Dough Tallamy has done quite a few videos on this huge problem - fragmentation of the ecosystem.
Eucalyptus doesn't interact with the local ecosystem because it didn't evolve in that area. It doesn't feed nearly the same number of pollinators and invertebrates. So what it's introduction does is create a black hole, a void, that now makes it harder for the native insects to find food and shelter. We tend to forget that the bugs don't have GPS or the internet to tell them which direction to travel, so when they run out of gas.... they just die.
Since the 70's, literally in my lifetime, we've lost more than 3,000,000,000 songbirds in the US not because of hunting, but because we killed off the insects that they need as a protein source for their young in the nests. Insects are at the bottom of the food web, so killing them off means you kill off everything above them.
This is why planting native plants is so vital. People think that "every tree helps" but they really don't. This 'fragmentation' of the ecosystem caused by planting non-native species is one of the greatest Invisible Threats to our ecosystem as a whole. Nobody sees it because they see "green" and think everything's fine. The truth, though, is that we've planted so much non-native and invasive foreign flora that we've actually surpassed the total acreage of 20 of our National Parks. When you look at every lawn and industrial landscape, 80% of the plants will be non-native and practically useless to the local ecosystem - that's why they don't have holes in their leaves where something's been nibbling on them. One yard might not seem like much, but when you look at the totality of millions and millions of yards, that adds up to serious acreage -- more than 20 of our largest National Parks.
So, yeah, every tree doesn't help. Trees are about more than just sucking up water and providing a shady spot for humans.
Now we talking