How to Solve Drought

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vtsteam:
I was in water saturated ground. Even with the drought! Should have realized it from what was growing -- background above photo is bracken fern, and foreground, touch-me-not (jewelweed). with willow starts nearby. All water loving plants

So here's my tractor now.

This is naturally the absolute wrong place to base a cistern!

Might be a good place for a pond, however, so uhhhhhh change of plans :loco:

Cistern will go elsewhere!

My advice for a drought? Simply begin work on a new cistern. Guaranteed it will rain and you'll hit water as well, and will soon be stuck in the mud! :thumbup:

vtsteam:

--- Quote from: Arbalist on May 28, 2015, 10:17:38 AM ---Have you thought of "Grey water" harvesting? Water used for Bathing and washing clothes goes straight down the drain here but could easily go to a settlement tank for reuse in the garden. The only water not ideal for this is from the Dish Washer but they don't use much these days anyway.

--- End quote ---

I have been wanting to do a separate grey water system for years. Always a job for the future, when water is plentiful, just like a larger cistern! :lol:

awemawson:
Steve, Glad that the heavens opened for you, must be worrying for you if you are entirely dependant on your spring. Are there water bearing strata below that you could drill down to?

AdeV:
The UK experienced a severe drought in IIRC 1973 ( I wouldn't remember, I wasn't even born until August of that year) - it went on for months. Eventually, the Government appointed a "Minister for Drought". The next day the heavens opened & didn't stop for weeks.

So, the other option if you're stuck, is have your local government appoint someone - I'm not sure what the US equivalent would be - it'll soon be lashing down :D

vtsteam:
Ade when it rains it pours doesn't it? :lol:

Today it was clear all day, I moved the tractor back about 50 feet from the mud when I stalled it and didn't have enough charge to re-start. So I snaked a 100 foot extension cord to the tractor and lugged my big charger out and set it up.

Hot and clear all morning. Within literally 15 minutes of starting to charge (according to the timer), the sky darkened, and knowing that a big additional joke was about to be played on me, I quickly unhooked and dragged the charger back and unplugged the cord.

And as you can imagine, all heck broke loose! It sounded like somebody had dropped a piano on the roof. No gradual buildup, the rain hit the house full force in an instant. It poured buckets, lightning left and right, the wind broke limbs off trees, downed power lines, forcing one of our local school busses to back away from one across the road and into a ditch in the process, and it hailed for 10 minutes, as if the rest wasn't enough of a show. All three lights were lit up red on our weather warning radio. Of course it was kind of obvious by then what was going on without modern technology!

Then 45 minutes later the sun came out, and we had blue skies, as if nothing had happened. So I dragged out the charger again, and finally got the tractor started and moved to the new spot where I plan to dig the new cistern. The tarp I'd thrown on it just before the storm had uncovered in the area of the seat, natch, so it wasn't too comfortable moving it.

Ade, your Minister for Drought was doomed from the start. Absolute certainty the way to end a drought is to commit to some course of action to combat it.

I'm still putting the damn cistern in !!!

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