![]() Helen Dahlke, a hydrology science professor at U.C. "His farm is often used as a demonstration site of how all this could be done," said Dr. The flood water will eventually seep into the ground and feed the underground aquifer. "They thought we were going to kill our vineyard."Ī photo shows wine grape vineyards of Terranova Ranch inundated water as part of Don Cameron's water recharge project. "Initially the other farmers in the area thought we were crazy," Cameron said leaning over a rail where the North Fork end of the King's River is currently bone dry. Predictably, the reaction from his fellow farmers wasn't enthusiasm. ![]() ![]() His notion was that rather than allow the occasional floodwater to flow past farmlands during the crops' off-season, he could pump the water onto his vineyard to protect against flood and at the same time re-feed the diminishing water table. In 2011 Don Cameron - who for 40 years has run Terranova Ranch in Helm near Fresno - decided to re-route the year's overflowing bounty of rain from the King's River to his wine grape vineyard, allowing the vines to stand in more than a foot of water for five months. A Central Valley farmer, whose bold experiment of flooding his vineyards and orchards with floodwaters in order to replenish the underground aquifer, has led other farmers in the drought-ravaged region to follow suit. ![]()
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