[Vision2020] Water: Reclaiming the wet landscape was What's missing

[Craine Kit]

A thought relating wetlands and the earlier suggestions about a  
reservoir: would it be possible to capture rainwater from roofs and  
deposit in drywells? If so, could that provide a recharge mechanism?

Kit Craine

On Apr 26, 2006, at 9:43 AM, Nils Peterson wrote:

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> On 4/26/06 9:17 AM, James Reynolds wrote:
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>> ...When the Palouse was settled and made into a wheat producing  
>> landscape many
>> small ponds, wetlands and such were drained off. These drained  
>> areas were
>> perhaps the recharge engines for our upper aquifer. How about  
>> reclaiming some
>> (many) of these areas for this? Federal, State, maybe even county  
>> technical
>> asistence (maybe some monetary) would be available to start such a  
>> program and
>> I expect our ever-growing urban farmer population on their 40 acre  
>> tracts
>> would be interested in having a pond etc..
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> A friend who farms west of Pullman has used money from some federal  
> program
> to reclaim the land along his creek, adding a meander and two  
> ponds, and
> planting the whole area to a mix of native plants and fruit & nut  
> trees.
>
> Along the Troy Hwy, between Styner and Blaine, on the south side,  
> is a small
> rill and marshy area filled with cattails. The south boundary of  
> this area
> is the Paraside Path on the old RR embankment. The City mows the  
> grassy
> northern edge, but not the boggy part. There are a number of red wing
> blackbirds that live there. We see the occasional duck also. Might  
> it be
> interesting to impound that water a bit more -- maybe 2 feet deep,  
> and make
> a pond?
>
> I've tried to enlist a UI landscape design class to think about the  
> area
> (Travois to Hwy 8; Blaine to Styner) as a linear park. You have  
> just given
> me an additional idea for that class project.
>
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