On 11/19/2015 12:34 PM, songbird wrote [in part]:

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i also notice any mentions of rain water capture
projects that are being funded and put into place,
but really the entire state should be out en mass
putting in swales, seeps and sinks to capture rains
as much as possible. sure beats sitting around and
feeling like little can be done... some farmers
are ahead of the game and have already changed
their fields to act as ground water sinks if the
El Nino comes through.

Where I live, the soils are so mineralized that any ground water
(including captured rain) is unfit for agricultural use, let alone
domestic use. We do have seeps and springs in the area. During a
drought about 30 years ago, however, a study determined that mixing only
one part of ground water with nine parts of California Water Project
water would yield something that would be illegally tainted.

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David E. Ross
Climate: California Mediterranean, see
http://www.rossde.com/garden/climate.html
Gardening diary at http://www.rossde.com/garden/diary