I feel like this is something I should know but what needs repaired in a pond? Dam or shoreline? Silt?
Large Area of Iowa in Extreme Drought.
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Lakes were MUCH lower in north central Iowa in 2012 than now. Then 2013, rain never stopped and they were over flowing.
Spring of 13 was wet, but then we quickly moved into a drought into the summer.
Shoreline, if overgrown with willows or other invasive weed trees needs to be cleaned up. Spillway needs to be maintained so that when pond overfills, water flows around the end without eroding it. Drain pipe can't leak around the outside or you'll lose your dike. Silt needs removed from the bottom of the pond.
And record corn yields north of Tipton in Cedar County, the southern tip of the extreme drought region.
Corn hybrid genetics are moving faster than global warming,
Corn hybrid genetics are moving faster than global warming,
Yep terrible yields that year in some areas due to the May snowstorm + essentially no rain in July and August.
I still have nightmares of that year. Crazy wet April, 10 inch snowstorm in May. Finished planting in June. Then hot and dry. Wind storm Labor Day weekend. Tons of flat corn that meant painfully slow combining. Due to that we finished combining in December in sub zero cold snap. Multiple nights sleeping in field starting machinery every two hours that was parked near windbreaks.
Just a grind of a year.
A UW limnologist told me that by 2050 they expect the lakes in Madison will not freeze over completely at all.
It was interesting: Mendota is usually the last to thaw but the last to freeze over too.
This year I think it was the first to thaw because it didn't have time to ice up to normal levels to begin with.
I said it in another thread. Our state senator came to the door and said he's bullish on Chicagoland because we have water.
Maybe the sonofabitch was on to something
My grandfather was a naturalist, conservationist, architect. He said the wars of the future will be for water. Only other big thing to worry about is Yosemite blowing up.
Edit: Yellowstone rather.
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Keep seeing West Lake near Osceola on Channel 13's camera everyday and how that keeps receding dried up. They even put bladders under the casino boat to keep it "floating."
