Monitoring Storm Water Impact on Road and Dam: Water Flow, Spillway, and Biodiversity
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- čas přidán 26. 06. 2024
- With the current heavy downpours, the situation on the road is still good, although it's starting to rain more. The ground needs to get saturated before water starts flowing into the dam, however. Once the storm intensifies, the inflow will fill the dam and eventually start flowing out of the spillway. The video shows water coming in from the hillside, but it doesn't affect the downstream. Instead, the water slows down and rehydrates the surrounding vegetation before continuing it's original course. The small rain (test)weir still collects a significant amount of water, when there's no frogs in it :-)
00:00 Hello
00:13 Road Report
00:28 Mild Rain starts
01:33 Rain Increase Starts Flow
02:02 Dam Inflow Peaking
02:33 Spillway overflows
03:10 Biodiversity and Infiltration
03:31 The Little Rain Weir
03:57 Thanks Patreon Friends
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Thats so amazing, and so great to see people using dams / bunds to harvest water to re-hydrate the ground water, which not only benefits nature but also people who rely on ground water. It never ceases to amaze me what people can achieve . Great work and definetly going to follow after seeing the videos on the dam.
Really good data, thanks!
Amazing how everything has greened up. There are even frogs apparently. 😀 It’s very well organized. Well done
Very nice and encouraging 👍
Good to see the plan (and the effort) working as intended.
Sound of that thunder surely means good rain. Could not help noticing that pink bush amongst the bright green bushes, so pretty. What a lot of water pouring down the stream. Dam will be full in no time.
those dogs are loving it 😁
And shortly after they love running into the house wet! 😅
Looking good.
Only saw your channel yesterday and enjoying watching the progress on the dam etc. Watching in chronological order to see how you learn to cope with the setbacks and improve each time. Great videos, we are trying to do water saving and the idea of a catchment dam is great.
So happy to have you here. I think it's a good thing to fail early and recover quick. Always open to inputs, if you see anything silly this side. 😁
Great to see
I like this kind of videos most of all (planting the rain).
I can see quite some places (like 2:17) where the basin banks and the temporary creeks don't have bushes or trees planted along, I hope the water penetrated deep enough in these areas to be worth planting.
THe problem with this site is the lack of soil. The geology is a soft shale that can be pulverized, but it's not easy. DIgging a tree pit is hard labor, especially on a steep bank. If you take close look at the undisturbed shale layers, you will see there is no detectable erosion. And the spillway, in part flows over bedrock until it fans out across the hillside. Spreading the spillway across the slope is a huge accomplishment. 😊
Thank you for visiting. I agree, the rain is just magnificent. We've left the dam as is due to time and energy limits, but plan to do some greening there. Steven is correct that the soil is very thin on top of rock and it takes bigger stuff a while to root. The good news is that the water is slowly seeping into the surroundings, and plant variety is increasing around the dam. Can't wait for the flora to grow on the banks, bring shade and provide more shelter for the indigenous birds and mammals (and our animals)
Credit for the spillway spread out like that goes to a great excavator operator, Jaco.
This is great. Hope it all holds
Been 4 months and many good rains. It holds well, rock solid and supplying the residual water to our downstream friends and neighbors. Enjoy your week!
Thanks for sharing! Just found you recently and have really appreciated the knowledge shared in your videos.
Thanks for the visit and comments James. Always welcome. Still working on improving the videos. Stay the course.
You could make so many more dams, trapping so much more water, it might be even wet all year-round if you will do it properly.
This is a WONDERFUL video! Everything appears to be working at the level of best case scenario. Now it's just a matter of time for those native plants to grow to a height where they provide shade. If you have shade and a plume of water from the reservoir, you can do some exciting things. I'm impressed that the pond did not go dry - or did it? I can't say I saw a video from the end of the dry season. If you have one, will you remind me of the date?
You're at 3.63 thousand subscribers. May I suggest a push of new content to get you over 4,000? Updates on you crop circles, solar power, all of your animals, crop circles, range browsing, water use and distribution including how you are watering your crop circles now - all good stuff CZcamsrs want to see (me too!) And we particularly like rushing water!
Congratulations friend !👍
Hi Steve!
Thanks. You're totally right. Going to push a bit, but so far really awesome viewers. Working on some big ideas, so they will start taking shape soon
The dam didn't go dry. It never dropped lower than 70% in the summer and after the last fix with the clay, it's been sealing well - yet, slowly sweating moisture through which is boosting life downstream of it.
Thanks for stopping by and always good to chat.
@@SimpleEarthSelfReliance That's great, your water level only dropped to 70%. Tell us about that in an upcoming episode, OK? I always am looking for a new contribution from the karoo 👍
All hail the Algorithm
Couldn’t agree more. Just discovered this today and it gives me a little faith in this dark world ❤️
Awe 🙏 There are more good people than bad in the world. The loud nature of the bad ones just make it seem worse.
Wonderlik om al die groen en veldblomme en die reën in die Karoo te sien!
You can make it bigger to have a good results
You are right. Definitely want to do that! We have legal limits and the environment to consider, so I may just create more, smaller ones than to go big on a single pond.