Flood in the Pasture

Snowgirl

I live beside a river and it floods on an annual basis. This year isn't nearly as bad as last year - no major ice floes - but even so, the Kennebecasis River is more than five times as wide and better than three times as deep as it normally is.

#1 taken a few days ago. The fence posts (barely peeking through the river) are almost 5' high and each has at least 3' or more below ground. So far the river has claimed at least a 1/2 dozen posts - the current pulling them right out of the ground and floating them down-river to the Bay of Fundy or beyond. We use electric tape fencing for our horses and every fall we have to remove it from this pasture - putting it back sometime in June.

The upside to this is that the silt from the river (and all the fish excrement) really fertilizes my pasture well :wink



#2 This couple return annually to nest on the riverbank, raising their goslings in the pasture once the flood waters recede. They're waiting patiently.



#3 is a shot taken from the house out over what WAS our front / side lawn. That line of tress and bushes in the middle USED TO BE the river bank. Our lawn is actually sinking every year.



#4 This was just taken today. The river had gone down slightly but then it rained again and up she came! The current is amazingly fast.



Then again - LAST year we had more ice to content with. Ah the joys of waterfront property :rolleyes

schmoo

The level of the water is incredible! I cannot imagine that happening to my land on a regular basis. You're quite patient, and I hope that the benefits to your pasture are out of this world.

Dogdots

Looks like your having some flooding too like we are here in my town.

Nice photos

Snowgirl

More rising river
Thanks. Yesterday I took a shot from the road down our lane to the house. That water on the left USED to be our front lawn / pasture. The river bank is beyond the treeline.

And, although my horizon is slightly off (I was in the car due to the wind), the land actually slopes down toward the river. :cry

Dogdots

Oh my, you do have a lot of water around you :cry Has it started to receed yet?

There are people here that live out in the country using boats to get to their homes.

Hopefully you will be dry soon

Snowgirl wrote:

Thanks. Yesterday I took a shot from the road down our lane to the house. That water on the left USED to be our front lawn / pasture. The river bank is beyond the treeline.

And, although my horizon is slightly off (I was in the car due to the wind), the land actually slopes down toward the river. :cry