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Water Management With Tom Kendall at PRI Maungaraeeda, Sunshine Coast (Qld, Australia)

by Tom Kendall, PRI Maungaraeeda

Tom Kendall talks about water management at the Permaculture Research Institute Maungaraeeda, Sunshine Coast, and answers water management related questions.

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Tom Kendall

Tom Kendall is a permaculture farmer with a lifelong broad acre agricultural background. He is co-founder of the PRI Sunshine Coast Inc and PRI Luganville, Vanuatu and runs PDC and Practical Life Skills training courses on his Permaculture Demonstration Site “Maungaraeeda”. He is part of the Permaculture Sustainable Consulting team and does regular personal consultations. He has extensive experience in tropical, sub tropical and dry land climates and has the ability to read large scale as well as smaller scale landscapes. With his farming background, Tom is a very hands on and practical man and is solution focused. He has extensive travel experience, integrates easily with local cultures and people and enjoys studying landscapes, buildings and the effects of climate on structures, flora and fauna.

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  1. Hi. I am working on a project in India. Here they are recommending leaving untouched soil (berms) across the swales to deal with the issue of when swales are dug and they are a bit unlevel on the bottom from having water flowing in the bottom in one direction or the other. On the project we are doing there are 20 people digging at one time. With language,education, and time as an issue to work out getting the swale exactly level in the bottom what do you recommend? Will dirt eventually settle in the low spots evening out the bottom? How unlevel will create a problem? The biggest rainfall event here is 7 cm in a 48 hr period

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