Here is the site I chose to build a wildlife pond. I hope to design a pond that during the rainy months in Oregon will channel the overflow via a gravity fed system into overflow barrels downhill from here. I'm in essence constructing an irrigation pond/reservoir on the top of a hill to enable me to water my crops just down the hill near the red barn in the photos. Ultimate Goal?
1. Provide Habitat for frogs, newts, fish, turtles and other wildlife.
2. Plant native aquatic and riparian plants that will purify the otherwise stagnant water
3. create a no waste source of rainwater for our small vegetable crops.
Progress is slow as I live 40 miles from this piece of property in Western Washington County and can only do small bits of work at a time.
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