Hmmmm. Maybe it's just me and my 40+ years in the groundwater industry, but this doesn't seem to me to be magic.  In Colorado, the state says it owns ALL of the waters of the state.  Some quick law library research showed this to be wrong and I in fact, own t, lhe water that falls on my property.  In an effort to lower my water usage hill, I installed a 4" shallow well into the shallow aquifer and regraded the property to drain toward a 30' kind, 15' deep French drain.  It works so well my water bill has been the bare minimum since and my landscaping is lush.  So it's a simple matter, dig a trench across a water runoff zone, fill it with crushed rock and presto chango!  Instant recharge!!

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Hmmmm. Maybe it's just me and my 40+ years in the groundwater industry, but this doesn't seem to me to be magic.  In Colorado, the state says it owns ALL of the waters of the state.  Some quick law library research showed this to be wrong and I in fact, own t, lhe water that falls on my property.  In an effort to lower my water usage hill, I installed a 4" shallow well into the shallow aquifer and regraded the property to drain toward a 30' kind, 15' deep French drain.  It works so well my water bill has been the bare minimum since and my landscaping is lush.  So it's a simple matter, dig a trench across a water runoff zone, fill it with crushed rock and presto chango!  Instant recharge!!

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