In the middle of our bank line the river is within 2-3 ft from comingover the bank. In the lowest potion it's close to 1 ft before coming
over.
Sadly this is what ends up happening to our land duringhigh water. It doesn't get eaten away it simply gets wet, heavy
and then sluffs off. *sigh*
This is the "before", dated 5/21/09
This is today, it probably 2-3 ft higher. Up above us, in a town 36 miles to our SW, they are at above flood stage. We're still okay
here and it is fore casted to be cooler this coming week, so....
it should slow down the snow pack melt and thus the river should
drop a bit
Another before from 5/21/09
Today's picture, as you can see we've lost a bit of land in the middle of the photo and some of the nub closest to where I'm standing.
Well..... we're off to a BBQ at some friends. When Mike called to see
what we could bring, he was told ourselves. After some
tit for tatting.... we're bringing the ice for ice tea, lemonade and pop.
I just hate going, without bringing something. It will be fun to relax a bit!
See you sometime this week. The bind weed is kicking it into overdrive,
we're doing our best to stay up with it, if not ahead.
Blessing to each of you!
6 comments:
Hello nice to meet you, I am so sorry to see the land get this wet! I have been looking over your blog and I enjoyed my visit.
Blessings,
Sue
Can you put some rock rip-wrap against your bank. Some people around here are using chicken wire and load a bunch of rock is a square bundle and set them in their bank. Keeps the water from eroding the land...hopefully it will quit raining. We had the same problems with all the flooding about 2 weeks ago. Had a fierce thunderstorm last night but yesterday and today were beautiful!...debbie
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That is so frustrating. During low season you can run downstream with your tractor to pick up the earth that dropped in, and carry it back home.
Seems there just has to be a way to prevent the bank from coming down into the water, isn't there?
Glad you came to visit Sue, please come again! I love your blogs, BTW and we are following one.
Debbie,
Yes you can put rip rap in but it has to be a certain type and done in a certain way( state regulations) to the tune of about $50K *gulp* We don't have this sort of $$ so we simply watch our land slip away bit by bit until we find a way that is more affordable. *sigh*
Our temps are fore casted to be in the 60's so this will help to slow the melt off and maybe settle down the river just a bit.
Faith,
If only we could recover the lost land. This property originally was almost 10 acres( from 50+ yrs ago) now it's down to 5.8 acres and now a bit less than that *sigh*
The state regulations are horrible and the way they want it done will cost $50K or more and then there is no guarantee it will hold because the property above us, is right on the bend and they won't do anything( most likely can't afford it either). So, if we do go ahead and try to do it in stages, it will most likely simply errode away and come in behind what ever we do to save our bank line. * heavy, heavy sigh* So we instead know that someday the river will be literally in our back yard.
Wow! I can't believe how much less land than what was originally there. And there's basically nothing you can do!
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