Redwood Reader

This exchange was in the rainwaterharvesting group as well as waterforum. Mr. Marple gives a lot of useful sources here relevant to the discussion and indeed, useful for most anyone concerned with restoration and preservation of natural resource systems. He points out the loss of control from the expertise point and implies local control has us spending large amounts on unnecessary public works. HE links us to California and Texas state information as well. Water is a big issue and deserves better public input and oversight as well as new lines of thinking altogether. Lastly, I saw an article saying DOI had been ordered by a judge to remove its web presence. The BLM site says it is for security but I sure hope we are not removing valuable public information.
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From: WindstarPK@AOL.COM
Sent: 10/17/2005 10:38:59 PM
To: rainwaterharvesting@yahoogroups.com
Subject: Re: [rainwaterharvesting] CAAM's book on RWH Success Story released
> How do you recharge a bore well?
> s yours,
> Pat Kultgen
> Texas
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Date: Tue, 18 Oct 2005 08:58:35 -0400
Subjec [rainwaterharvesting] rainwaterharvesting CAAM's book on RWH Success Story released
Search the Waterforum site with "onsite", "retention", "recharge", "berms", "spreading terrace", "replenish", "furrow dike", "microcatchment", "LID", "Phoenix", "Fresno".

The USDS-NRCS and the US Environmental Protection Agency have covered every aspect of groundwater recharge that will keep bore wells full. RWH is not limited to catching roof runoff as semi-competent of deliberately deceptive Professional Engineers commonly characterize it.
(False and misleading testimony from this profession dominates discussion of onsite retention in many state water plans, those of California and Texas are notable example.)

Many wells will require recharge from adjacent or remote properties. Comprehensive watershed management planning is advocated strongly by all competent planners and wise/conscientious politicians to achieve maximum groundwater replenishment while eliminating floods and pollution.
The Soil Conservation Service was created expressly for the purpose of minimizing erosion through onsite retention of rainwater with a multiplicity of detention-retention-infiltration enhancement techniques.

The US Congress of 1937 recognized that this simplest and least costly of basic technologies will accomplish the most publicly beneficial management of the public's water resource by mimicking natural conditions achieved by vegetation. (With the considerable contribution of 200 million beaver in North America.) For this reason they created the SCS. (This central branch of the US Department of Agriculture was renamed the NRCS by environmental extremist pressure during President Clinton in order to make it "disappear" from the public's radar screen)

In order to provide direct service to individuals from this federal agency, and through it all other federal agencies, the US Congress provided a model Resource Conservation District Plan that all states adopted in a variety of forms so that local residents had immediate control over a State agency that works directly through the Department of Agriculture to implement commonsense rainwater management that keeps bore wells full and streams flowing stably year-round so that reservoirs will not run dry.

Unfortunate for the American public, the apathy of most communities has allowed municipal and county governments to assume the functions of these Districts, even eliminating some of them. With this flagrant abuse of their powers bureaus were dominated by profiteers have prevented the RCDs from performing their primary function of creating Comprehensive Watershed Management Plans for every watercourse.
Additional Information:
Typical Recharge Well
Page 29/73 of volume21.pdf
http://www.epa.gov/safewater/uic/classv/pdfs/volume21.pdf

Private Drinking Water Wells
url: http://www.epa.gov/safewater/privatewells/index2.html

EPA Search Result
http://search.epa.gov/s97is.vts?action==search&collection==all&filter==sample3filt.hts&resulttemplate==epafiles_default.hts&fld==ogwdw000&url_directory==&areaname==Private+Drinking+Water+Wells&areasearchurl==&button1==&button2==&querytext==recharging+well

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Posted by: Rich McGuiness / 3:17 PM