Leaky Weirs I cant swim, but I’ve been fascinated by water all my life and have learnt water harvesting and storage design and...

While I was doing the job, my client asked what could be done in the section below the dam, I recommended a constructed wetland based off Peter Andrews system of creating a chain of ponds in water courses, but this was a little different as it was down the side of a ridge and not in the natural water course.

Retrofitting farm dams and vastly increase wildlife habitat and productive edge function, while accessing the material/earth to repair the dam wall on-site and/or increase the freeboard of the dam wall for its safety and the safety of your neighbours below the dam.

So, you've been contacted by a client and you've discussed the client’s brief, you’ve started to look at the contour map, aerial images, whatever data you can find on the site and about the site, and with the client brief in mind always considering WATER IS LIFE you set to the task of patterning the landscape using functional forms. You start to look at what's the most economical way I can hold water in the landscape, move water around the landscape passively and make it perf