Showing posts with label swamp. Show all posts
Showing posts with label swamp. Show all posts

Thursday, May 10, 2012

First Swamp of 2012

The critters are gonna love this.  Got .25" of rain overnight...then another .23" from 6 to 7:30 this morning.  Musta rained right through the watershed that feeds my swamp.  All filled up and flowing out through the new (much lower) spillway, created when the dam blew last year.  The creek ran for 4 hours after it stopped raining.  Now I have a puddle that averages out to be  approx. 3' deep, 40' wide, and 100' long.   That's 12,000 cubic feet x 7.4805 gal/cu ft. =  89,766 gallons...a very big puddle from just under a half inch of rain.  I'm starting to re-think my creek pump/tank placement.

Ordered parts for 3 new Pepino II swamp coolers.
http://www.canakit.com/5-minute-adjustable-on-off-cyclic-timer-kit-ck191m5-uk191m5.html
http://www.surpluscenter.com/item.asp?catname=&qty=1&item=16-1434
http://www.harborfreight.com/1000-gph-bilge-pump-66095.html

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