#swales — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #swales, aggregated by home.social.
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📰 "Village Water Restoration in India Revives 11 Water Bodies and Secures Rural Futures"
🗒"Soon, 11 water bodies across the area were revived in one of the country’s driest places. Dry basins became functioning reservoirs once again.
Groundwater levels began to respond. Wells that once ran dry during peak summer retained water longer."
https://happyeconews.com/village-water-restoration-in-india/
#swales #farming #gardening #community #water #watercatchments #India #Anantapur #AndhraPradesh
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First step to cutting #Swales is building a landscape contour level.
Pretty easy. connect a couple lengths of wood together to form a /\
Then find and check a level surface. attach a cross piece between to make an A such that the cross piece is perfectly level.
Tape a level to the cross piece. Or if you don't have one, use a string and plumb bob from the top of the A, and draw a line where it crosses the cross piece when level.
Then you just plant one leg and move the other around until it's level. drop flags or stakes at the legs. then lift one leg and 180 it and find the next level spot. drop a flag or stake. Keep doing this and you'll mark a contour line across the landscape pretty quickly.
If you need a drainage swale, put a 1-2" block under one leg when you set level on the cross piece. you have to keep the contour level oriented the same way. but now your flags will mark out a contour with a slight drainage grade.
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First step to cutting #Swales is building a landscape contour level.
Pretty easy. connect a couple lengths of wood together to form a /\
Then find and check a level surface. attach a cross piece between to make an A such that the cross piece is perfectly level.
Tape a level to the cross piece. Or if you don't have one, use a string and plumb bob from the top of the A, and draw a line where it crosses the cross piece when level.
Then you just plant one leg and move the other around until it's level. drop flags or stakes at the legs. then lift one leg and 180 it and find the next level spot. drop a flag or stake. Keep doing this and you'll mark a contour line across the landscape pretty quickly.
If you need a drainage swale, put a 1-2" block under one leg when you set level on the cross piece. you have to keep the contour level oriented the same way. but now your flags will mark out a contour with a slight drainage grade.
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First step to cutting #Swales is building a landscape contour level.
Pretty easy. connect a couple lengths of wood together to form a /\
Then find and check a level surface. attach a cross piece between to make an A such that the cross piece is perfectly level.
Tape a level to the cross piece. Or if you don't have one, use a string and plumb bob from the top of the A, and draw a line where it crosses the cross piece when level.
Then you just plant one leg and move the other around until it's level. drop flags or stakes at the legs. then lift one leg and 180 it and find the next level spot. drop a flag or stake. Keep doing this and you'll mark a contour line across the landscape pretty quickly.
If you need a drainage swale, put a 1-2" block under one leg when you set level on the cross piece. you have to keep the contour level oriented the same way. but now your flags will mark out a contour with a slight drainage grade.
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First step to cutting #Swales is building a landscape contour level.
Pretty easy. connect a couple lengths of wood together to form a /\
Then find and check a level surface. attach a cross piece between to make an A such that the cross piece is perfectly level.
Tape a level to the cross piece. Or if you don't have one, use a string and plumb bob from the top of the A, and draw a line where it crosses the cross piece when level.
Then you just plant one leg and move the other around until it's level. drop flags or stakes at the legs. then lift one leg and 180 it and find the next level spot. drop a flag or stake. Keep doing this and you'll mark a contour line across the landscape pretty quickly.
If you need a drainage swale, put a 1-2" block under one leg when you set level on the cross piece. you have to keep the contour level oriented the same way. but now your flags will mark out a contour with a slight drainage grade.
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First step to cutting #Swales is building a landscape contour level.
Pretty easy. connect a couple lengths of wood together to form a /\
Then find and check a level surface. attach a cross piece between to make an A such that the cross piece is perfectly level.
Tape a level to the cross piece. Or if you don't have one, use a string and plumb bob from the top of the A, and draw a line where it crosses the cross piece when level.
Then you just plant one leg and move the other around until it's level. drop flags or stakes at the legs. then lift one leg and 180 it and find the next level spot. drop a flag or stake. Keep doing this and you'll mark a contour line across the landscape pretty quickly.
If you need a drainage swale, put a 1-2" block under one leg when you set level on the cross piece. you have to keep the contour level oriented the same way. but now your flags will mark out a contour with a slight drainage grade.
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Some small talk about big issues in the face of #climateChange.