So after the heat of a summer so hot we had to stay inside at recess and lunch, we now have a week so wet we can't use the playground because of torrential rains!
These extreme contrasts are big events even for the Australian climate. The Sunburnt country full of droughts & flooding rains seems to have turned up the weather a notch. HalindaGreen is now flooded at one end of the bike track.
We are considering an overflow to give quicker drainage and hopefully harvesting some water that way.
One of our goals written into the School Environmental management plan is to use Permacultural principals where we can. Designing water harvesting into the scheme of the garden makes common sense and reduces our future reliance on piped, metered water.
Stay tuned.
These extreme contrasts are big events even for the Australian climate. The Sunburnt country full of droughts & flooding rains seems to have turned up the weather a notch. HalindaGreen is now flooded at one end of the bike track.
We are considering an overflow to give quicker drainage and hopefully harvesting some water that way.
One of our goals written into the School Environmental management plan is to use Permacultural principals where we can. Designing water harvesting into the scheme of the garden makes common sense and reduces our future reliance on piped, metered water.
Stay tuned.
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