water supply, here will do

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dpack

Joined: 02 Jul 2005
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Posted: Tue Apr 12, 22 8:09 am Post subject: water supply, here will do
old new and clever the principles demonstrated on multiple metrics are splendid this is a good way to make a high and often dry village viable a while back i saw a promising site that was "dry" it might not have been

Mistress Rose

Joined: 21 Jul 2011
Posts: 15967

Posted: Wed Apr 13, 22 7:48 am Post subject:
Seems sensible to get them working again. Some old ideas are still very good.

Shane

Joined: 31 Oct 2005
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Location: Doha. Is hot.

Posted: Wed Apr 13, 22 11:32 am Post subject:
Looks a bit like the system of leats that were put in on Dartmoor between the 16th and 18th centuries.

Mistress Rose

Joined: 21 Jul 2011
Posts: 15967

Posted: Thu Apr 14, 22 6:42 am Post subject:
I have seen some of those. They were useful in supplying water to various places, but less for storing the water I should think as they are mainly built of the prevailing granite. Otherwise very similar for sure.

sgt.colon

Joined: 27 Jul 2009
Posts: 7380
Location: Just south of north.

Posted: Tue Apr 19, 22 9:06 am Post subject:
That is really good and nice to see that all this time on it is still working. Maybe going forwards we need to go backwards for the sake of the environment.

gz

Joined: 23 Jan 2009
Posts: 8918
Location: Ayrshire, Scotland

Posted: Tue Apr 19, 22 9:14 am Post subject:
Saw a programme about the archaeology of Macchu Pichu, bringing water from the back of the mountain to the front where the town was. Same method

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