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Administrative | In 1984 a very large intake/drain pipe was installed to flood and drain this field, but a combination of beavers and floodwater washed out the pipe leaving water free to come and go. During the summer of 2006 we used a 4” pump to remove the water from the bar ditches to allow our dozer man to replace the pipe and patch the levee.
Pictured is a bar ditch we believed would take two days to pump and required five. Anyone wanting a workout is welcomed to help with this two man carry pump sloughing through shin high mud for three trips to carry pump and in/out hoses as well as several times a day refuel. The benefit of this project was to create 10 plus acres of additional wetlands for our members to hunt ducks on a proven flyway less than one hour from Kansas City. An after photo of the same area pictured above with the pump. The green growth is Japanese millet that was planted while the bar ditches were still wet. Millet was also planed on all other open areas created by the dirt work project for feed for the ducks in the fall. |
