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Too much water.....Sometimes, How to build swales

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Using a wattle fence as retaining wall on terraced garden, bad idea?

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road surface options, long driveway, remote location

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Starting Goji berry farm - need advice

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Keyline- A question from a novice

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What to do with a steep, sandy hillside

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Wood chip driveway - a success story.

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Swale dimensions and frequency

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Swales in Humid Tropical Mountains. Yes or no?

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Can Underground Houses Meet Code in North Carolina?

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Turning a Floodwater Liability into Biologically Filtered Groundwater Assets

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ditches/swales/furrows

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Can anyone let me know if I did this keyline design properly?

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Swale dimensions and frequency

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Building woodland roads for Homes

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Swales, bunds, puddles, terraces, meanders, checkdams, waffles, earthworks

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Waterlogged land

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Swale End Design Question

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geocells (and why your next driveway, parking space, or entry road may want them)

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Swales on heavy clay soil?

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Using a wattle fence as retaining wall on terraced garden, bad idea?

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Turning a Floodwater Liability into Biologically Filtered Groundwater Assets

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Swales in Humid Tropical Mountains. Yes or no?

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circular swales.

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Swales on heavily forested land

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Water Collection from Hillside

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Earthworks on very gentle slope of clay soil? Food forest Washington state, U.S.

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how close to a tree line can I make a swale?

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Swale on very sandy soil, cold, pointless? Harmful?

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Improving barren soil

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Two large swales vs many fishscale swales?

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Water Harvesting Experiment

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Methods for boring and installing a 3" pipe under a raised shared road?

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SWALES HELP

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Suburban backyard swale

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