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Water & keyline
Slow, spread and store water: keyline design, ponds, solar pumping and stock water.
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Resources (7)
Water for Every Farm (P.A. Yeomans)
The keyline design text compiled by Ken Yeomans from his father's writings, on the Yeomans family's Keyline Designs site.
Keyline Design Mark IV (Darren Doherty & Abe Collins)
Doherty and Collins cover keypoints, keyline dams, the cutoff trench, layered and compacted dam walls, lockpipe collars and spillway sizing.
The Keyline Plan (P.A. Yeomans)
Yeomans' first book laying out the Keyline system of water and soil management (free PDF).
Yeomans Plow (keyline plow distributor)
The original keyline subsoil plow; a US distributor is in Creston, CA.
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