When I moved onto this property one of the first things I did after observing where the water pooled when the snow melted was dig out that area and fill it with wood chips. This is where the overflow from my rain barrels, and water from our rare rainstorms, ends up.
I recently dug out the nicely decomposed wood chips and was going to refill it with fresh ones, but I wonder if I could turn it into a small pond for the frogs and birds to enjoy instead?
The problem is the rock that is at the bottom. It's layered in with very sticky clay and when dug into it breaks into lots of sharp pieces. The water drains in about 12 hours, and dries out completely in 2 days if there's no fresh influx of water.
I could use permies' help to figure out if and how it could be turned into a small pond, or if I should just go back to the wood chip fill.
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From the east side
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From the north side
Drove my Chevy to the levee but the levee was dry. I wrung this tiny ad and it was still dry.
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