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01/01/1999 |
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22/04/2011 |
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07/10/2015 |
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PO Box 189, Ladismith, Western Cape, ZA |
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027 - (0)28 55 11 678 |
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www.berg-en-dal.co.za |
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Arid |
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Back to Klien Karoo Sustainable Dryland Permaculture Project
Project: Klien Karoo Sustainable Dryland Permaculture Project
Posted by Alex Kruger over 13 years ago
Our project was funded through the Threshold Foundation to make a 17 million litre surface dam. After the dam was completed, we entered into a two year drought - the worst in decades!
Our fold mountain landscape does not leave much opportunity for Keyline implementation, but we managed to create a small keyline dam, with a keyline running down to a much larger storage. This storage is also fed swale overflow via a much smaller, higher surface dam, which pushes back into a canal that then leads excess water to the main dam.
A 50 mm downpour (in 90 mins) in February had water rushing like a waterfall via the keyline into said dam. Hoever it did not fill much, and rapidly evaporated in the scorching summer.
In July we experienced a slower gentler 124 mm in two or three days, and the big dam was full in 3 days! We can now start looking at Zone 3 agriculture.
Very exciting watching the water harvesting sytems working together like a well conducted orchestra.
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