Good thought Kit! I remember seeing something about a small bottled water company that collects their water that very way and stores it in tanks, does some reverse osmosis process, and then bottles it.<BR><BR><B><I>Craine Kit <kcraine@verizon.net></I></B> wrote: <BLOCKQUOTE class=replbq style="PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; BORDER-LEFT: #1010ff 2px solid">A thought relating wetlands and the earlier suggestions about a <BR>reservoir: would it be possible to capture rainwater from roofs and <BR>deposit in drywells? If so, could that provide a recharge mechanism?<BR><BR>Kit Craine<BR><BR>On Apr 26, 2006, at 9:43 AM, Nils Peterson wrote:<BR><BR>><BR>><BR>><BR>> On 4/26/06 9:17 AM, James Reynolds wrote:<BR>><BR>>> ...When the Palouse was settled and made into a wheat producing <BR>>> landscape many<BR>>> small ponds, wetlands and such were drained off. These drained <BR>>> areas were<BR>>> perhaps the recharge engine!
s for our
upper aquifer. How about <BR>>> reclaiming some<BR>>> (many) of these areas for this? Federal, State, maybe even county <BR>>> technical<BR>>> asistence (maybe some monetary) would be available to start such a <BR>>> program and<BR>>> I expect our ever-growing urban farmer population on their 40 acre <BR>>> tracts<BR>>> would be interested in having a pond etc..<BR>><BR>> A friend who farms west of Pullman has used money from some federal <BR>> program<BR>> to reclaim the land along his creek, adding a meander and two <BR>> ponds, and<BR>> planting the whole area to a mix of native plants and fruit & nut <BR>> trees.<BR>><BR>> Along the Troy Hwy, between Styner and Blaine, on the south side, <BR>> is a small<BR>> rill and marshy area filled with cattails. The south boundary of <BR>> this area<BR>> is the Paraside Path on the old RR embankment. The City mows the <BR>> grassy<BR>>!
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edge, but not the boggy part. There are a number of red wing<BR>> blackbirds that live there. We see the occasional duck also. Might <BR>> it be<BR>> interesting to impound that water a bit more -- maybe 2 feet deep, <BR>> and make<BR>> a pond?<BR>><BR>> I've tried to enlist a UI landscape design class to think about the <BR>> area<BR>> (Travois to Hwy 8; Blaine to Styner) as a linear park. You have <BR>> just given<BR>> me an additional idea for that class project.<BR>><BR>> _____________________________________________________<BR>> List services made available by First Step Internet,<BR>> serving the communities of the Palouse since 1994.<BR>> http://www.fsr.net<BR>> mailto:Vision2020@moscow.com<BR>> ŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻ<BR><BR><BR>_____________________________________________________<BR>List services made available by First Step Internet, <BR>serving the communities of the Palouse sinc!
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