posted 7 years ago
I'm not familiar with the snowfence/pond strategy and the living snow fences you mention. I sort of get the idea that the snow pond thing is where your water lands and gets biologically filtered before becoming a pond downhill; is that right?
At any rate, you haven't asked any questions about your project so I'm not sure what to say. Most of what you wrote sounds reasonable and feasible, so I can give you that much at this point.
I will add at this point: After the pond, which seem pretty big, where does the water go? Even though all that rain would be landing on your property and probably draining to this lower area, now that you will have a pond there, it draws notice to the fact that you are directing all that flow there, so downstream neighbors are potentially going to wonder about it, and about all the excess water that overflows out of the system in a large rain event. So where does it go? I would put a lot of water loving species there for an outflow filter.
Oh, and the pond, if varying in depth a lot and having shallow parts on the sides, will make it a lot more biologically diverse, and make maintaining the edges a lot more safe and less work and might eliminate the need for the wall to support the rocks. might be nice to have a walking path/wheelbarrow path between the pond edge and the berm. You might want to hugulkulture part of the berm for food production rather than trees.
And one more thing before I fly: large trees tend to not transplant nearly as well as smaller trees. They will establish but will not grow deep tap roots (which allow for a more maintenance free future) as readily as smaller younger trees, and thus are potentially prone to problems, depending on species. You might be able to do this in order to gain the privacy you desire, and slowly replace them with younger trees that will establish in a stronger, longer lasting way.
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