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Rain. \u00a0Creates a hole up in the burrow and sleep, slowdown sort of feeling. \u00a0We went out for a small lunch, took a nap. \u00a0Business meeting in the morning, partly dividing up money from the recent stock surge.<\/p>\n
The soil here in the Great Anoka Sand Plain (a former river bank for the Mississippi as it detoured around the Grantsburg Lobe of the Wisconsin Glaciation) allows rain water a clear path to aquifers beneath it, including one from which we get our water. \u00a0Not great for gardening unless there happened to be a peat bog atop the sand like the Fields Truck Farm that surrounds our development.<\/p>\n
So, there’s a trade off. \u00a0Good water resources for tillable soil. \u00a0The small crop vegetable grower and orchadist, however, can amend the soil with organic matter and top soil. We’ve done that.<\/p>\n
The aquifer from which we get our water, the\u00a0Franconian Ironton-Galesville, (see pic) underlies much of eastern Minnesota, much of Wisconsin, some of Michigan, Illinois and Indiana is hydrologically connected to Lake Superior as you can see by the map on the right.<\/p>\n
In case you think the olden days have no impact now, you might consider aquifers. \u00a0The\u00a0Franconian Ironton-Galesville<\/a> aquifer came into existence during the middle Cambrian period of the Paleozoic Era, beginning some 540 million years ago and continuing to about 485 million years ago. \u00a0The water in this aquifer circulates around and among the area under all these states, providing the water from municipal wells throughout the region get the bulk of their water.<\/p>\n Here’s another matter to consider. \u00a0Water cycles up and down, into the earth then up to the sky and back to the earth, sometimes ending up in aquifers and sometimes in lakes and oceans and rivers and streams and ponds and lakes. \u00a0This material from the Coon Creek Watershed District<\/a> interests me.<\/p>\n “The ultimate source feeding groundwater is precipitation. Actual <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Fall \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0Harvest Moon Rain. \u00a0Creates a hole up in the burrow and sleep, slowdown sort of feeling. \u00a0We went out for a … Continue reading A Riff on Rain That Got Away From Me<\/span>
\naquifer recharge rates are not well quantified within the watershed
\nwhich leads to uncertainty in assessing sustainable withdraws.
\nOver appropriation is the result of removing water at a rate and or
\nvolume faster than the aquifer can supply. In cases where a water <\/strong>
\nsource takes 100 of years to recharge, appropriations are an <\/strong>
\nirreversible withdrawal.”<\/strong>
\nAn important thing to note here is that in cases of drought, as now, there is no recharge possible. \u00a0That means that any climate change induced reductions in rain fall directly impact our long term capacity to draw our water needs from these ancient sources of water supply.<\/p>\n