Nov 4, 2011 · A zuni bowl is a riparian restoration technique involving rocks, water, biology and time. It’s a great way of dealing with a small headcut (or erosion which is about to become a headcut) in order to prevent that headcut continuing up your catchment.

The Quriva Coalition’s Erosion Control Field Guide has recipes for a Rock Mulch Rundown, a Zuni Bowl, One Rock Dam, and Media Luna. We show the Wyoming Game and Fish Department’s overview of these recipes below.

Zuni Bowls are bowl-shaped structures used to reinforce headcuts. Stones are placed along the walls to cover loose soil which prevents the headcut from traveling further and slows down water as sheet flow travels over the edge of the bowl and slides over the rocks (instead of picking up soil) and pools in the basin before continuing down the ...

Aug 13, 2015 · Using a design called the zuni bowl, rain water flows are prevented from eroding soft soil through the use of appropriately placed rocks. The bowl acts as a large infiltration basin allowing water to slowly percolate into the ground.

Apr 4, 2024 · A Zuni bowl is built to stop the undercutting action of water flowing over an elevation drop. It is composed of a head-cut pour-over, a plunge pool, a lower pour-over which is about one-half the height of the head-cut pour-over, and a one-rock dam.

Nov 18, 2020 · Zuni bowls are a lining of rocks built into gully heads where there are abrupt vertical drops. They take their name from the Native American Pueblo people from the Zuni River Valley, who first developed and used the structures.

Zuni Bowl Constructed at the base of a head-cut, Zuni bowls (originally used by Zuni Pueblo) armor the substrate within the channel, preventing scouring action by water over the long term. The bowl shape acts as an energy dissipater as water flows into the structure, protecting the potentially erosive substrate. The bottom of the bowl also acts ...

Jan 14, 2012 · Learn about how a Zuni Bowl can help control headcuts and prevent them from getting worse. This Zeedyk structure has several benefits and Shawn Conner from B...

Nov 2, 2012 · It’s a whole year since we made our first Zuni Bowl at Milkwood Farm to combat an erosive gully headcut, and time has proved the benefits of this simple yet powerful handmade technique nicely. One year on, the zuni bowl has 10cm of silt covering its paved floor, the vegetation around it is stable and thriving, and the headcut has halted.

Controlling Erosion and Healing the Land with field expert Bill Zeedyk. This is the 4th installment in the 4 part progressive series as Bill leads field demo...