This evening, we had a short sharp heavy rain shower lasting only for 15 minutes or so and we had about 20mm of rain land on us!
Generally, our new improved defences are working much better, but only just!
The-6inch-deep-lake-at-the-end-of-the-loke
The Loke rushed down and pooled at the bottom and got within an inch of our berm we put across our driveway. The diverter, along the top of the swimming lane, worked well and allowed the water to pour into the swimming lane itself, without spilling out on to our garden.
Water-pouring-into-the-swimming-lane
But we were concerned that just the surface water landing generally across the land and especially round the module we just repaired, which is approximately 10 metres by 10 metres and that is 100 square metres and for every 1 mm of rain, we would have 100 litres of water. Since we had 20mm of the stuff, we got 2000 litres!! Wow! We had to block off a large pond forming far too near the energy module and make sure it didn’t flow down the freshly filled in edges. Phew!
The-emergency-hole-to-collect-rain
We cannot wait to have the foundation done and built the concrete perimeter wall to provide the long term barrier against the elements!!