Establish a native shade hedgerow along an open water edge.

Turlock's Project Nexus put solar canopies over irrigation canals partly because shade over open water cuts evaporation, and a living hedgerow does the same thing at a smaller scale for the price of plants. On a public open water edge near Garden City, a district canal bank, a pond margin or a reservoir shore, with the owning district's or authority's written permission and an honored 811 locate, plant a row of regionally native shrubs and small trees set back from the water line at the spacing the agency allows, staked and mulched, with a first year watering plan and a named steward. Where the place has no open conveyance, the same row goes on the public pond or reservoir edge it does have, and the packet says which.

Where

public streets, river channel overlooks and city parks, Garden City, Finney County, KS · Open the map

Pay

$330 proposed

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Proof

written permission from the owning district, 811 ticket, GPS line with setback from the water line, before and after photos, species list with counts, and the first year watering plan with a named steward

This is exactly what gets it approved. Nothing settles without it.

Level

intermediate

Open until

2026-10-01

Posted by

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How this work is done

A documented method, so this packet comes out the same whoever does it.

Bring

• an evaporation pan or a marked float staff, set on public ground with permission
• a ruler or hook gauge readable to a tenth of an inch, and a fixed time of day for reading
• the agency's published evaporation rate for the nearest station or reservoir
• public aerial imagery for the surface area measurement
• the local daily rainfall record from a named public source
• hand tools, stakes, mulch and regionally native shrubs and small trees for the shade rung, with an 811 locate before any digging

Steps

1. 1. Name the open water surface exactly: a canal reach with its district and mileposts, a reservoir with its operating agency, a pond with its park, or a public pool with its facility. Get written permission for anything placed on a bank.
2. 2. Find the agency's published evaporation rate for the nearest station or for the reservoir itself, and record the agency, the period and the units.
3. 3. Set the pan or the marked staff on public ground, record its GPS location, and read it at the SAME hour every day, writing the raw reading before any correction.
4. 4. Subtract the day's rainfall from a named public source, keep the raw and corrected columns side by side, and never discard a reading that looks wrong; annotate it instead.
5. 5. Measure the open water surface area from public imagery, record the imagery date and the method, and state the area as a measurement with its uncertainty rather than as a fact.
6. 6. Compute the month's evaporation in gallons twice, once from the published rate and once from the direct series, print both, and state the difference plainly without explaining it away.
7. 7. For a shade packet, confirm the district's written permission and the setback it requires, honor the 811 locate, plant the row set back from the water line at the agency's spacing, stake and mulch, and record the first year watering plan with a named steward and the water source that plan uses.

What counts as done

• The owning district's or authority's written permission naming the reach or edge, and the 811 locate ticket number, both dated before any digging
• A GPS line of the row with the setback from the water line in feet and the agency's stated setback requirement
• Before and after photos from the same vantage, species list with counts, all regionally native, and the nursery source
• The first year watering plan with the named steward who will carry it, and the water source that plan uses

Proof is measured against these, not judged by taste.