RE: Landscape regeneration. Healing from Motocross Track. First Earthworks: Terrace / Retaining Wall, Pocket Pond, Soil decompaction on 400m2 (4300 square feet).
Hey, thanks. I saw your message on Discord. I didn't miss your message just been busy and have gotten behind on replying to my comments.
Sounds like lots of good advice. The reason I called it a quasi swale is it isn't really going to hold/infiltrate water. It is just going to be on contour or near contour with one end opening into a pond we will be creating.
There is a low spot the road has to go over where we would have to put a culvert anyway. We are going to dig this area out and use it to build a small damn for the road to roll over. It will only be holding back a couple of feet of water. The majority will be below grade and we will have two overflows. One being a culvert under the road and one being a drain off the other side of the hill away from the road. I might make this one lower so the water never gets up to the culvert.
The only logical place to put our driveway would have it on near contour anyway and putting in Calvert's all along the road means we lose the water into the bush. The subsoil is all gumbo clay so I think it is ideal for this type of project and the pond is quite high on the property. I will have future posts on this project with more details and topographic maps before we actually do the work so maybe you can take a better look over what I am doing then? I am open to suggestions.
Sounds good dear @canadianrenegade.
If I will not see the post due to information overkill, feel free to send me a heads up. I would love to contribute my knowlege to this project!
For now I can only advice, that any culvert is reason to be afraight of erosion. So if not addressed properly, there WILL be problems evolving out of every water running downhill. So make shure to prevent that by any kind of "slowing, spreading, soaking" measures for the culverts.
Also any "quasi swale" that is not completely on contour turns into some kind of very shallow drain. The prevent erosion here in your clayey soil you should not go steeper than 1:500 slope and seed the drain with groundcover right after installing.
Talk to you soon then, and looking forward on your earthworks-posts, as this is one of my favourite permaculture fields.
All the best.
Moritz
Thank you. I will notify you when I post on it. I have the same problem. Just too many posts and follows to keep track of.
Nice to meet you Moritz, I am Matthew and my wife is Aimee. Sometimes she posts /comments on this account but she usually ends her comments with:
-Aimee.