Re-setting the spillways

[caption id="attachment_777" align="aligncenter" width="500" caption="Our very full swale snaking past the house and into our very full dam"][/caption]

For the last 2 and a half years we have waited for the big rain which would test the capacity of our water-harvesting earthworks. And waited. We’ve had a bit of rain here and there, but the summers have been hot and dry these last two years, and we had gotten used to life with half-full dams and swales which were good roads, but rarely wet.