Thank you.
Monsieur Laflèche and Madame Craiovan, I was listening with interest to your discussion on drainage issues and the controlled drainage system.
I come from what's known as the "Wet Coast”, Vancouver Island, and we get an extraordinary amount of rainfall every winter. Increasingly, we're seeing two different types of weather systems: very heavy rain in winter and spring and an increasingly dry summer, so that by the time we get to August, the ground looks like baked concrete.
I have a small farming property on a slope. We get an incredible amount of runoff and right now the water table is up to the maximum, so it looks like a standing pond. We've implemented a system whereby we've followed the contours of the land and built in some swales to direct the flow of the water around the property. We've also found that by raising the earth a little with a slight culvert, even in the dry summer months, that tends to retain moisture in the soil.
Are any kinds of experiments like that going on in your region?