It was a beautiful 45° day on The Farm, so I decided to go spring hunting with Woody. It didn’t take us long before we found the perfect spring.
Here’s Wood Dog flying through the woods to sniff out the water source:
Hiding behind all of those leaves is a spring just waiting to shed water.The dirt, clay, puddled mud, rocks and leaves actually hinder the flow of the spring water from the aquifer , so I like to help out and free the pressure.
Now that I have found my spring exposed, I like to plan out how the water will be contained. I would prefer to build a nice concrete dam, but dirt will do.
I think I will put a nice dam in the erosion path of the spring. The sides are there so now I just need to fill it with dirt and put a temporary overflow to relieve pressure. This has helped, in my previous dam construction, to slow the natural erosion on a packed earth dam. Once the dam fills up I’ll post a picture of the “completed” project.
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