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[font size=3]CORVALLIS, Ore. Engineers at Oregon State University have developed a new interactive planning tool to create networks of small wetlands in Midwest farmlands, which could help the region prevent massive spring floods and also retain water and mitigate droughts in a warming climate.
The planning approach, which is being developed and tested in a crop-dominated watershed near Indianapolis, is designed to identify the small areas best suited to wetland development, optimize their location and size, and restore a significant portion of the regions historic water storage ability by using only a small fraction of its land.
Using this approach, the researchers found they could capture the runoff from 29 percent of a watershed using only 1.5 percent of the entire area.
The findings were published in Ecological Engineering, a professional journal, and a website is now available at http://wrestore.iupui.edu/ that allows users to apply the principles to their own land.
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[font size=3]CORVALLIS, Ore. Engineers at Oregon State University have developed a new interactive planning tool to create networks of small wetlands in Midwest farmlands, which could help the region prevent massive spring floods and also retain water and mitigate droughts in a warming climate.
The planning approach, which is being developed and tested in a crop-dominated watershed near Indianapolis, is designed to identify the small areas best suited to wetland development, optimize their location and size, and restore a significant portion of the regions historic water storage ability by using only a small fraction of its land.
Using this approach, the researchers found they could capture the runoff from 29 percent of a watershed using only 1.5 percent of the entire area.
The findings were published in Ecological Engineering, a professional journal, and a website is now available at http://wrestore.iupui.edu/ that allows users to apply the principles to their own land.
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New system to restore wetlands could reduce massive floods, aid crops (Original Post)
OKIsItJustMe
Mar 2013
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Restore the prairie potholes, for starters. I swear some people must think the
kestrel91316
Mar 2013
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pscot
(21,024 posts)1. Now if only we can figure a way
to get agribusness to quit plowing from road to road. Grain is so profitable right now that what few damp spots and thickets remain are being plowed under.
kestrel91316
(51,666 posts)2. Restore the prairie potholes, for starters. I swear some people must think the
Oglalla Aquifer sprang from Athena's head or something, rather than from surface water percolating down into the ground with the aid of the potholes.
OKIsItJustMe
(19,938 posts)3. Athena’s Head!? You must be joking!
Everybody knows Athena spring from Zeus head!
I think it will take millennia to restore the Oglalla Aquifer
mopinko
(70,086 posts)4. DH thinks that we should mitigate rising oceans
by pumping it into dried aquifers. you might even be able to get away without desalinization if you did it right. might.
not sure the math could be made to work here. but them again filling them this way works for me, too.
rivers are made of raindrops.
kestrel91316
(51,666 posts)5. Well then we'd best get started.