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It's rained for most of 24 hours yesterday. today was nice with a couple hours of additional rain. Last year this would mean that the "island" would have been completely underwater. Not this year :~) the 7 speed bump dams placed in the run off creek and the widening of the creek channels around the island have proven to be a success. Out of our 7 dams, ONE of them had a cinder block that moved "a little". I would estimate we are holding back 3,000 or more gallons of water in all our catchments combined. A couple days ago the creek was down to just a trickle. Below are pictures of 4 of the dams. I took photos of all of them but some ended up being a video instead of a picture, sorry. Hover over the images for description. Click the images to enlarge. The Island Garden is happily not flooded. All our water catchment containers are full. Thats about 500 gallons contained in plastic for the days we get hit with a drought. We have a couple of "watering holes" built into the creek system around the garden and I don't think that will dry up anytime soon. So, we've probably done all our water catching for this year... yesterday. LOL
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