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Re: Pond Construction, cont.
- To: permaculture <permaculture@franklin.oit.unc.edu>
- Subject: Re: Pond Construction, cont.
- From: "Lawrence F. London, Jr." <london@metalab.unc.edu>
- Date: Tue, 3 Aug 1999 00:26:48 -0400 (EDT)
- In-reply-to: <LYR75156-13536-1999.08.02-22.59.26--london#metalab.unc.edu@franklin.oit.unc.edu>
- Newsgroups: permaculture
On Mon, 2 Aug 1999, Claude Genest wrote:
> What are some ways you've found to deal with overflow?
>
> Do you divert it to your gardens? to a subsidiary holding area?
To small catchments (ditches where rich silt may accumulate) near or
beside your gardens, to very small ponds or pools with aquaculture
systems, to a wetland area or to s succession of smaller ponds
(see Mollison's Designer's Manual for details on this).
> I'm especially interested with working ducks into the mix.
See my post descibing using lespedeza for this (and many other plants, of
course). I call this type of planting as catchment and erosion control,
constructed drylands (nutrient-rich runoff or greywater) remediation.