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I'm going to be creating more erosion/flood control channels and infiltration pits today.

Water has been streaming down the path to our composting toilets then depositing silt up against the foundation of the community kitchen. redirecting that with a couple infiltration pits before exiting to cross the driveway further up from the kitchen then into the pre-existing channels.

the much bigger project will be creating a slightly draining swale around the far edge of our ceremony fireplace to prevent water from getting to and filling the pit.

Also need to figure out a way to keep water off another section of road that has never been a problem before, but has been seeing flows with the major rains we've received this year.

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Hippy Steve Feb 21

First step to cutting #Swales is building a landscape contour level.

Pretty easy. connect a couple lengths of wood together to form a /\

Then find and check a level surface. attach a cross piece between to make an A such that the cross piece is perfectly level.

Tape a level to the cross piece. Or if you don't have one, use a string and plumb bob from the top of the A, and draw a line where it crosses the cross piece when level.

Then you just plant one leg and move the other around until it's level. drop flags or stakes at the legs. then lift one leg and 180 it and find the next level spot. drop a flag or stake. Keep doing this and you'll mark a contour line across the landscape pretty quickly.

If you need a drainage swale, put a 1-2" block under one leg when you set level on the cross piece. you have to keep the contour level oriented the same way. but now your flags will mark out a contour with a slight drainage grade.

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64 mastodonz logistics co-op

@exador23 that's very well-explained!