{"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":"So Valdosta&#8217;s <a href=\"\/blog\/2011\/07\/ponds-for-flood-control-and-irrigation.html\">ponds for flood control idea<\/a>\nis a good start on local water issues.\nRather than a few big antiseptic ponds, how about many small distributed\nponds, like the\nGeorgia Soil and Water Conservation Commission&#8217;s\n<a href=\"http:\/\/medicalboard.georgia.gov\/portal\/site\/SWCC\/menuitem.2f54fa407984c51e93f35eead03036a0\/?vgnextoid=9d5e19106e8f8210VgnVCM100000bf01010aRCRD\">\nPonds Program:<\/a>\n<blockquote>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/medicalboard.georgia.gov\/portal\/site\/SWCC\/menuitem.2f54fa407984c51e93f35eead03036a0\/?vgnextoid=9d5e19106e8f8210VgnVCM100000bf01010aRCRD\">\n<img style=\"float:right;border:none;\"\nwidth=\"180\"\nheight=\"116\"\nsrc=\"http:\/\/www.files.georgia.gov\/SWCC\/Images\/Ponds-image-smaller.jpg\"><\/a>\nBecause of increased irrigation from existing ponds in Southeast Georgia\ndue to saltwater intrusion into groundwater aquifers and moratoriums on\nwell drillings along Georgia\u2019s coast, GSWCC, in cooperation with NRCS,\ndeveloped the Ponds Program.  By helping landowners to construct new and\nrenovate existing ponds for irrigation, the Ponds Program has been able\nto take advantage of rain harvesting to increase landowners\u2019 irrigation\ncapabilities while simultaneously reducing withdrawal from our aquifers,\nprotecting and improving water quality, capturing sediment to reduce\ndownstream transport, and providing wildlife habitats.\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>\n-jsq\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"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;]","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"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"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p585fK-sY","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_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}]}}