Water For Wind Song Animal Sanctuary
This is an emergency plea for help with an unforeseen water crisis at Wind Song Animal Sanctuary (Sanctuary), in Northern California. After 3 years of drought, our well has not been able to keep up with the water demand, for the 60 plus Wind Song animals that rely on this source. Since mid-December 2013, the water has consistently diminished, finally reaching a crisis point last week.
The weather experts in our area are calling for 3 more months of no rain, and this is our rainy season. The summer and fall will prove to be unimaginable for us and the animals. Even if the rains came, the experts conclude, it could take a couple years of normal or above normal precipitation for the water table to recover. The handwriting is on the wall. As care takers of the Sanctuary, we too are impacted. The major portion of the well water goes to the animals, as it should. We survive on bottled water, and rely on our daughter, for showers and washing clothes, a forty mile round trip.
We are only able to provide enough water every 2 hours, by working around the clock, as the well can't keep up with the demand for water.
| Hauling water by hand to fill the troughs |
Yesterday, a volunteer drove from a nearby town, 20 miles round trip to bring us 150 gallons of water from their well. This is extremely expensive and labor intensive, and only a band aid on our current water crisis.
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Going from trough to trough
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As it stands, if we do nothing, we will be out of water.
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After two days hand hauling water
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We have been trying for a month to find the right solution, and here it is.
The Sanctuary needs to access stock water, so the well can be used for human use. The solution is sitting at the base of the property; a spring fed pond, also filled with irrigation and rain water.
(However, irrigation water comes in on April 15, 2014-October 15, 2014 but may be restricted this year due to the drought.) If we bring the captured water up to the barn on top of the hill, this would be a constant water source for the animals of Sanctuary. A local well drilling company has drawn up a plan, using our existing 2500 gallon storage tank. They would place a pump into the pond and pump the water into the 2500 gallon tank, half way up the hill. Inside the tank, a float will fill the tank and shut off the pond pump once filled. A second pump will push the water up to the barn. When we open the valve inside the barn, we will have 2500 gallons of stock water per watering. (Currently, 25 sanctuary horses drink 10-20 gallons of water per day and more as the weather gets hotter.) This will also water the pigs, goats, dogs, cats and geese. The barn is about 1200 feet from the pond, so the expense will be two pumps, pipe and labor to put this much needed water system into operation.
This system will solve the water crisis now and in the future as the pond is a large holding tank and even in this drought, water is flowing into the pond and then spilling out into a year round creek.
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Pond that will be used for continuous water source
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We are desperate. Water is everything and the well is going dry at the current rate of use watering the sanctuary animals. Please help us help the animals of the Sanctuary receive the water they need daily, by providing a constant source of water to the barn. All donations are tax deductible.
Thank you!
All donations will benefit the 60+ senior and special needs animals here at Wind Song! For more information contact: Ren� Bender at 916-205-7103 or and click on donate button or click here. This will take you to the website page so you can make a one time donation or monthly donation. Thank you for supporting Wind Song! Wind Song Animal Sanctuary is a 501c3 CA Non-Profit. Check out our all new Video on Wind Song Animal Sanctuary and Homer Le Porc's Facebook page. 
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Wind Song Animals is a beautiful forever-home animal sanctuary in Lincoln CA where visitors (of the human-kind) are encouraged (by appointment) to come face to face with our residents where they can frolic with goats in a large open pasture, sit down with a pig (or two...) who want nothing more than a tummy rub, cuddle with chickens, geese and/or ducks who seek out nothing but your loving attention, or get nuzzled by some very friendly horses and goats! Other residents merely want a quiet place to be loved while enjoying their lives peacefully, naturally, and organically.
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