jamesp
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Post by jamesp on Apr 17, 2017 8:51:44 GMT -5
Off the deck, small pond about 8 feet deep that supplies cooling/heating water to heat pump @ 8 gallons per minute. Thermostat turns pump on, incoming water triggers heat pump to start. Mid February long shadows  April 5  April 6 after 4 inches of rain  April 17 green  May 5 rain with sun shine(Devil is beating his wife)  Canned Heat 1969, seasons change |
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grayfingers
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Post by grayfingers on Apr 17, 2017 9:11:31 GMT -5
Nice! I'll wager it will be nearly invisible soon.
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Post by rockjunquie on Apr 17, 2017 9:38:16 GMT -5
OH NO!!!! Wetlands! Are you safe from Big Brother?
My husband's uncle had a cabin in the woods. He wanted to build a deck off the back. The Feds said, NO! Wetlands! It wasn't wetland for Pete's sake. It just puddled after a good rain. Ridiculous.
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Fossilman
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Post by Fossilman on Apr 17, 2017 10:05:27 GMT -5
Got to love nature!!! Thanks for sharing James!!
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metalsmith
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Post by metalsmith on Apr 17, 2017 10:29:48 GMT -5
Oh wait! It looks like wet woodlands - doubly protected here in the UK. You'd also need a licence to abstract water...
Still nice to see.
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jamesp
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Post by jamesp on Apr 17, 2017 10:43:40 GMT -5
OH NO!!!! Wetlands! Are you safe from Big Brother? My husband's uncle had a cabin in the woods. He wanted to build a deck off the back. The Feds said, NO! Wetlands! It wasn't wetland for Pete's sake. It just puddled after a good rain. Ridiculous. I not only defied the wetland police by building a deck, but also shunted a creek into a pond on flood plain table. Big no no. I have shunted 2 other creeks in the exact same manor but on a much larger scale. Excuse ? It was done before the EPA started making a living policing us which is true(sorta). Not only that, I get credits for constructed wetlands on the other two shunts. Treating the fertilizer rich runoff and improving the creek water quality and creating animal habitat. And sold $2,000,000 with of wetland plants from those two larger shunts over the past 25 years. I guess I am a hero in my own mind. DAMN the regulators !!! Stepped out on the deck yesterday to burn one and a deer was taking a drink out of the pond. |
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jamesp
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Post by jamesp on Apr 17, 2017 10:58:50 GMT -5
Oh wait! It looks like wet woodlands - doubly protected here in the UK. You'd also need a licence to abstract water... Still nice to see. The water is extracted at a rate of 8 gallons per minute whilst heat pump is on via submersible pump and unloaded(after heat pump extracts energy from it) and unloads it into a 250,000 gallon (shunted) pond over in the plant nursery. Only to flow back into the creek. As cleaner water. US Agricultural Department is us farmer's best friend. They have the authority to override our dear Environmental 'Protection' Agency. Farmers get away with (murder) in EPA's eyes. Example-ditching-to-dry wetlands to grow crops. Not such a good practice must admit. But it can be done. Large water extractions do require a permit. Here in granite bedrock territory not so much if ever. Ground water in granite bed rock is isolated to many divided pockets if fissures. I drilled a well 4 years ago and estimated flow was +500 gallons per minute. And a 30 gpm pump running days at a time barely drops the static water level 6 inches. No shortage of ground water here. |
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jamesp
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Post by jamesp on Apr 17, 2017 10:59:33 GMT -5
Got to love nature!!! Thanks for sharing James!! You guys have seasons there, deciduous trees etc. Correct ? |
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jamesp
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Post by jamesp on Apr 17, 2017 11:01:03 GMT -5
Nice! I'll wager it will be nearly invisible soon. Deer hunting during winter is easy, warm weather is about impossible unless you have last name Walking Bear or Grayfingers. |
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metalsmith
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Post by metalsmith on Apr 17, 2017 11:42:05 GMT -5
Oh wait! It looks like wet woodlands - doubly protected here in the UK. You'd also need a licence to abstract water... Still nice to see. The water is extracted at a rate of 8 gallons per minute whilst heat pump is on via submersible pump and unloaded(after heat pump extracts energy from it) and unloads it into a 250,000 gallon (shunted) pond over in the plant nursery. Only to flow back into the creek. As cleaner water. US Agricultural Department is us farmer's best friend. They have the authority to override our dear Environmental 'Protection' Agency. Farmers get away with (murder) in EPA's eyes. Example-ditching-to-dry wetlands to grow crops. Not such a good practice must admit. But it can be done. Large water extractions do require a permit. Here in granite bedrock territory not so much if ever. Ground water in granite bed rock is isolated to many divided pockets if fissures. I drilled a well 4 years ago and estimated flow was +500 gallons per minute. And a 30 gpm pump running days at a time barely drops the static water level 6 inches. No shortage of ground water here. Don't try to bring logic into play LOL  |
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jamesp
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Post by jamesp on Apr 17, 2017 11:56:59 GMT -5
Yea, govt. courses apparently do not include logic metalsmith. |
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