Last Decemeber we took up controlling the fresh water and the brackish water as the two waters reached each other from higher water levels and by mixing together it possibly would change the salt levels. By having a dam at Cowpen Marsh we could prevent this. You can have a look at this link for Peter’s blog and recap on what it looked like 9 months ago and how the volunteers created a dam.
Around the turn of the year a tidal surge caused flooding across the area and a mass of water damaged our work. If you want to see how it looked less than a month after we put a dam in place take a look at Peter’s other blog at this link. So the dam has been rebuilt, this time with some big changes. This was earlier in the year and that leads to what we have been doing today….
The cattle are grazing in the fields at Cowpen Marsh and every time they walk on the ground over the dam they are eroding the bank. My picture below displays the posts in place around the dam to enable us to fence it off, deter the cattle and hopefully protect the dam in the future.
The picture below shows the finished product of our work today with a fenced off part to prevent any more erosion.
- Josh McGowan