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Hell-roaring squirt
Today we've had one, a real drencher. It's been really wet for the past
few days. (three to five inches of rain per day) My house sits in a hollow that, up until four years ago when I began the excavation, drained about five acres in an amphitheater configuration. During excavation I pushed up a small dam just outside the house (thirty-forty feet away) to collect runoff water and another, quite a bit larger dam outside the basement entrance (again, thirty/forty feet away) which is to be a/big/ garden pond in the unforseeable future. Until this week both dammed areas have been empty or almost empty all the time. This morning I noticed that the upper dam was running over. The bottom dam was almost full. As I watched, the overflow from the uper dam filled the lower dam(which has a four inch drain that ends in an upflow pipebelow the dam) to overflowing, rushed into this drain, and started shooting up from the upflow pipe below the dam with enough force to fire a four inch column of water three feet high above the pipe. It made the prettiest bell fountain I've ever seen! Of course, all this water flowing in a fairly small area has cut some pretty drastic ditches right where I /didn't/ want them to be. Oh, well, it looks like bobcat day tomorrow. (if it doesn't rain again!) Cybe R. Wizard -- Unofficial "Wizard of Odds," A.H.P. Original PORG "Water Wizard," R.P. "Wize(ned) Wizard," A.P.F-P-Y. Barely Tolerated Wizard, A.J.L & A.A.L |
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