{"id":1796,"date":"2011-07-06T10:00:00","date_gmt":"2011-07-06T14:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/2011\/07\/many-small-ponds-for-flood-control-and-irrigation.html"},"modified":"2011-07-06T10:00:00","modified_gmt":"2011-07-06T14:00:00","slug":"many-small-ponds-for-flood-control-and-irrigation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/2011\/07\/many-small-ponds-for-flood-control-and-irrigation.html","title":{"rendered":"Many small ponds for flood control and irrigation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So Valdosta&#8217;s <a href=\"\/blog\/2011\/07\/ponds-for-flood-control-and-irrigation.html\">ponds for flood control idea<\/a><br \/>\nis a good start on local water issues.<br \/>\nRather than a few big antiseptic ponds, how about many small distributed<br \/>\nponds, like the<br \/>\nGeorgia Soil and Water Conservation Commission&#8217;s<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/medicalboard.georgia.gov\/portal\/site\/SWCC\/menuitem.2f54fa407984c51e93f35eead03036a0\/?vgnextoid=9d5e19106e8f8210VgnVCM100000bf01010aRCRD\"><br \/>\nPonds Program:<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/medicalboard.georgia.gov\/portal\/site\/SWCC\/menuitem.2f54fa407984c51e93f35eead03036a0\/?vgnextoid=9d5e19106e8f8210VgnVCM100000bf01010aRCRD\"><br \/>\n<img style=\"float:right;border:none;\"\nwidth=\"180\"\nheight=\"116\"\nsrc=\"http:\/\/www.files.georgia.gov\/SWCC\/Images\/Ponds-image-smaller.jpg\"><\/a><br \/>\nBecause of increased irrigation from existing ponds in Southeast Georgia<br \/>\ndue to saltwater intrusion into groundwater aquifers and moratoriums on<br \/>\nwell drillings along Georgia\u2019s coast, GSWCC, in cooperation with NRCS,<br \/>\ndeveloped the Ponds Program.  By helping landowners to construct new and<br \/>\nrenovate existing ponds for irrigation, the Ponds Program has been able<br \/>\nto take advantage of rain harvesting to increase landowners\u2019 irrigation<br \/>\ncapabilities while simultaneously reducing withdrawal from our aquifers,<br \/>\nprotecting and improving water quality, capturing sediment to reduce<br \/>\ndownstream transport, and providing wildlife habitats.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>\n-jsq<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So Valdosta&#8217;s ponds for flood control idea is a good start on local water issues. Rather than a few big antiseptic ponds, how about many small distributed ponds, like the Georgia Soil and Water Conservation Commission&#8217;s Ponds Program: Because of increased irrigation from existing ponds in Southeast Georgia due to saltwater intrusion into groundwater aquifers [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[202,47,2,55,89],"tags":[8719,59,8701,4148,4134,7,4149,6,8735,4150],"class_list":["post-1796","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-agriculture","category-climate-change","category-government","category-water","category-weather","tag-climate-change","tag-flood","tag-georgia","tag-georgia-soil-and-water-conservation-commission","tag-irrigation","tag-lowndes-county","tag-pond","tag-valdosta","tag-weather","tag-wildlife"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1796","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1796"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1796\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1796"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1796"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1796"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}