Building a dam
Building a dam
Does anyone here about from Euroboy have direct experience digging a dam here ?
Interested to know just how "technical" it is . I think you want / need good clay content but if you do not have that---- do you dump coarse road / laterite gravel and compact and then pray to buddha that it retains water ?
Also - bit of an odd question but how close can you dig in and around coconut trees before you damage the roots ?
Interested to know just how "technical" it is . I think you want / need good clay content but if you do not have that---- do you dump coarse road / laterite gravel and compact and then pray to buddha that it retains water ?
Also - bit of an odd question but how close can you dig in and around coconut trees before you damage the roots ?
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ut sint Guinness proxima morientis ori.
tunc cantabunt letius angelorum chori:
"Sit Deus propitius huic potatori."
Funny you should post that cos that was what I was thinking of when i had it in my mind that the answer was "fuckin close"
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Dam building is quite a complex topic, depending on what body of water you want to contain, the basic data you need to provide an engineer is the peak flow of the body of water and it's maximum head (pretty much how wide and how deep does the body of water get) also why you want a dam? Do you plan to harvest electricity from that dam? Are you actually going to build a dam or a dyke( The main purpose of a dike is protecting the land behind it from flooding, whereas a dams' purpose is to retain the water)?
I knew a Dutch guy who once got his hands stuck in a dyke - nasty... or was it a dike
Meum est propositum in taberna mori,
ut sint Guinness proxima morientis ori.
tunc cantabunt letius angelorum chori:
"Sit Deus propitius huic potatori."
ut sint Guinness proxima morientis ori.
tunc cantabunt letius angelorum chori:
"Sit Deus propitius huic potatori."
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A Khmer friend of mine built his own dam in Ream. It broke twice but he got it right on the third attempt.
As a result he has a private lake up to 6m deep about 300m by 60m and just have to open a water gate to enable his own private waterfall.
As a result he has a private lake up to 6m deep about 300m by 60m and just have to open a water gate to enable his own private waterfall.
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I want to do close to a hectare about a metre deep. Land has lots of coconut trees on it which I'm hoping I can dig around and "flood" everglades style.Barang_doa_slae wrote:A Khmer friend of mine built his own dam in Ream. It broke twice but he got it right on the third attempt.
As a result he has a private lake up to 6m deep about 300m by 60m and just have to open a water gate to enable his own private waterfall.
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We call them dams in Australia. A non flowing reservoir of water usually dug for livestock .
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Lots of palm trees mean that the soil is sandy and well drained so the chances of holding water are pretty slim and they suffer from root rot if kept too wet....no pond full of talapia for you unless you want to spend money on lining it....
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While I am under the impression coconut trees quickly die when submerged, there are some plantations with trenches digged between each tree line for irrigation purposes.
I would be careful to check if the soil is not too permeable and size your islands accordingly.
Regarding my friend's dam, cimenting boulders and implementing a well designed overflow gateway seemingly did the trick after 2 failures during reany seasons since he was actually damming a stream.
Reminds me of my own DIY civil engineering crazy gamble, up to 10 meter height of retaining slopes between far apart existing elevations to create some 2000m2+ flat promontory on a hill side.
I had the idea after being offered very cheap truck loads of various size boulders including huge ones and soil. Lucky me all landfills settled quite nicely and nothing has moved for the past 15 years
I would be careful to check if the soil is not too permeable and size your islands accordingly.
Regarding my friend's dam, cimenting boulders and implementing a well designed overflow gateway seemingly did the trick after 2 failures during reany seasons since he was actually damming a stream.
Reminds me of my own DIY civil engineering crazy gamble, up to 10 meter height of retaining slopes between far apart existing elevations to create some 2000m2+ flat promontory on a hill side.
I had the idea after being offered very cheap truck loads of various size boulders including huge ones and soil. Lucky me all landfills settled quite nicely and nothing has moved for the past 15 years
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