Applications - Irrigation Ponds

Irrigation Pond Site

Too much summer and winter storm run-off carry excess nutrients, unwanted chemicals and sediment. The deposit in sloughs and canals or along roadsides creates expensive maintenance problems and threatens the quality of both surface and groundwater supplies.

The solution? A pond system that collects and holds run-off until it can be returned back to the field.

Ponds uniquely perform many diverse functions in agriculture today:

- provide water for crops

- provide water for livestock

- help remove sediment from water supplies

- help remove chemicals from water supplies

- increase wildlife habitat

- increase aesthetics

In water storage and run-off drainage ditches where high water velocities or shear forces are expected, geomembranes can create environmentally superior lining systems.The result is a more aesthetically pleasing, cost effective, flexible design which:

- controls erosion

- captures sediment

- filters contaminants

- increases infiltration

- decreases runoff

-collects reusable water

-improves wildlife habitat

Lining of Irrigation Pond

Water storage increases available water supply; of special concern in the more arid regions.

Whether you are considering tailwater or hill ponds, we can help you select and install the right liner for water re-use. Pond benefits include a reduction of erosion, downstream flooding, sediment depositation — all the while providing additional irrigation resources, scattered drinking sources for livestock and wildlife — a win-win practice for farmers, ranchers, livestock, wildlife, and habitat.

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