Check dams need to be wider, then add hieght after they backfill

With that much water flowing, you definitely need deep perpendicular  and parallel swales with deep ponds.  Spread and slow that water for soak in and later use.

One swale and pond would capture more water than all of your other water collection combined.

You could then pump water during storms to other retaining ponds, totes or containers.

1 rock high, 4 Rick wide.  Many of your current rock dams are intermittent and only 1 or two rocks wide.  So not slowing or diverting most of the potential available.

I am very excited for you and the potential you have on your land.

Really appreciate the updates in the rain!

A permanently installed camera with time lapse would be nice.

The wash.  I watched a guy take full grown trees he had cut and just put them in the wash, parallel to the flow.  I expected them to get washed away, but they stayed in place, and wow what a slowing, spreading, and cleansing the water received.  Ugh, he a good sized excavator to move the big trees.  Great job with the rocks "Beaver."

1) Stack the rocks.  2) Slow the water.  3) Harvest the sediment. 4) Heal the incision. 5) Raise flood stage until it spills over the banks and into a riparian zone. 6) Spread the water.  7) Soak the water.
* This is my expanded version of 1) Slow the water. 2) Spread the water. 3) soak the water.
* Keep on stacking those rocks.  I hope you can round up some tools like a come-along or winch and big iron bars to use as levers on the big boys.
* It's working.  Just keep stacking rocks and start consistently tracking how long the water flows at X point after the storm ends. 👍🌳

You should make a video building up the check dams and really putting a solid day or 2 in, I would watch that

You're greening the desert! Getting water and organi
c matter in the soil really pays off in the long run.

so when is the check dam party?  thanks to creators like you for the first time in 10 yrs I have kept 100% of the rain fall on my acre land.  My focus was always storage with swales and pits. by stopping the flow and letting the sediment settle while the flow becomes clear and now soak over a greater area.  My driveway is not going to get washed out anymore.  Things that helped is using rocks to secure the swales as a pile of dirt will wash away.  Center swales around vegetation it soaks up faster.  more storms are coming in would love to see a timelapse of your stream.

I was watching Ryan Hall y'all's weather channel forecast predictions for this coming winter, and the vicinity of the country that you are in is expected to have quite an active winter, hope it's nothing crazy and the excess moisture does it reach levels of it being a problem.

big rains coming to the southwest! get your check dams prepped!

I love these "during" videos. Great job, man.

So much potential in this wash!

Great job 👏
The Wash looks amazing. The trees are going to be growing in spring like crazy

Every time I see the runoff flowing. I see so much potential. Keep up doing the Lord’s work. You’re doing great

A ram pump would be a great addition

The Rock Beaver never quits :)

Impressive how much the check dams can accomplish.

It’ll be amazing when the water leaves your property clean for all the slowing down and filtration that you will achieve.🍀

The sounds are very relaxing. One of my absolute favorite parts of your videos. The sound of the rain and the sound of the wash.  I would play those on repeat if they were available on my Tidal.

"I am the beaver"! Love it!

super cool seeing the rewards for all the work you're doing!  nice!