Rainwater Harvesting for Drylands and Beyond by Brad Lancaster

XVIII (Chapter 9). Diversion Swales

Interceptor drains

www.solutions-site.org/cat11_sol79.htm. Integrated whole farm, whole landscape planning.

Keylines and breaklines

Water for Every Farm: Yeomans Keyline Plan by Ken Yeomans and P.A. Yeomans, Keyline Designs, 1993, www.keyline.com.au/.

The Challenge of Landscape: The Development and Practice of Keyline by P.A. Yeomans, Keyline Publishing Pty. Limited, 1958. Online: www.soilandhealth.org/01aglibrary/010126yeomansII/010126toc.html.

The City Forest: The Keyline Plan for the Human Environment Revolution, by P.A. Yeomans, Keyline Publishing, 1971. Online: www.soilandhealth.org/01aglibrary/010127yeomansIII/010127toc.html.

The Keyline Plan, by P.A. Yeomans, 1954. Online: www.soilandhealth.org/01aglibrary/010125yeomans/010125toc.html.

“The Geographical and Topographical Basis of Keyline,” by J. MacDonald-Holmes. Online: www.yeomansplow.com.au/basis-of-keyline.htm.

“Water You Can’t Live Without It,” by Tobias Policha. Online: www.foodnotlawns.com/keyline_water.html.

“Yeomans’ Keyline Design for Sustainable Soil, Water, Agroecosystem and Biodiversity Conservation: A Personal Social Ecology Analysis,” by Stuart B. Hill. Online: www.csu.edu.au/special/fenner/papers/ref/04%20Hill_Stuart.pdf.

Ponds and pond construction (in addition to keyline resources above)

Permaculture: A Designers’ Manual, by Bill Mollison, chapter 13. Tagari Publications, 1988.

Ponds: Planning, Design, Construction: U.S. Department of Agriculture Handbook Number 590.

Water Storage: Tanks, Cisterns, Aquifers and Ponds for Domestic Supply, Fire and Emergency Use, Plus How to Make Ferrocement Water Tanks, by Art Ludwig. Oasis Design, 2005.

Earth road construction

Handbook for Forest and Ranch Roads: A Guide for Planning, Designing, Constructing, Reconstructing, Maintaining, and Closing Wildland Roads, by William Weaver and Danny K. Hagans. Mendocino County Resource Conservation District, June 1994.

Earth Roads: Their Construction and Maintenance, by Jack Hindson. Intermediate Technology Publications, 1983.

A Good Road Lies Easy on the Land: Water Harvesting from Low-Standard Rural Roads, by Bill Zeedyk. Quivira Coalition, 2006, www.quiviracoalition.org.

Daylighting once culverted or buried waterways

Daylighting: New Life for Buried Streams, by Richard Pinkham. Rocky Mountain Institute, September 2000, www.rmi.org/images/PDFs/Water/W00-32_Daylighting.pdf

Restoring Streams in Cities: A Guide for Planners, Policymakers, and Citizens, by Ann L. Riley. Island Press, 1998.

Village Homes and its use of diversion swales irrigating landscapes and controlling stormwater

Designing Sustainable Communities: Learning from Village Homes, by Judy Corbett and Michael Corbett. Island Press, 2000.

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