Wetland Work

We have been hard at it trying to get all the wetland work done so we can irrigate and get some duck food growing. The big wetland unit we have is 196 acres total and needed to be split in order to be able to manage it properly. We split this property roughly in half with a road that meanders through the unit. In order to do this we laser leveled all the ponds and swales so that we could  get the necessary amount of dirt to construct the road as well as making the unit flood and drain properly. The project went smooth and we can now irrigate in a week to ten days where it used to take almost 30 days to get the water across the entire unit. We can flood the top half and then let the water into the bottom half allowing us to reuse the water. The watergrass is coming on strong and soon enough we will be seeing the birds as they make there way down here!