digging a dry creek bed

I have a dry creek bed for my rainwater tank overflow. I did it in stages and two years after moving in I finished. I blogged about the start of the channel last week. This is my creek bed last winter, but I had do much digging and lugging rocks to get there.

dry creek bed

I have a dry creek bed for my rainwater tank overflow. Yesterday my 9000L rainwater tanks were empty. After last night’s deluge of rain they overflowed. The rain guage in my garden recorded 73mm.

I made the dry creek bed in stages and it took a couple of years to finish. Over winter 2021 and 2022 I had to make some changes to stop it flooding my shed. This first overflow of the year worked like it should, with no shed flooding.