Talk:Dew pond

message: Dew ponds are quite widely used in the Staffordshire moorlands. The underlying limestone is very permeable, and there is very little surface water, especially in high summer. Looking down from high ground it is possible to see functional and disfunctional dewponds scattered across the landscape. The high dewponds are still used, as there is insufficient mains water pressure to supply cattle troughs without expensive additional pumping.
Shoka
Dew ponds appear in all the downlands of southern England, not just the South Downs (a specific region of Sussex and Hampshire counties.)
Old Moonraker 16:26, 10 February 2006 (UTC)

message: Most local sources refer to this newly restored feature (located on "Brook Road") as a "dew pond" but local large scale maps show that it's stream- (or as the Ordnance Survey prosaically describes it, "drain")-fed and thus not a dew pond. Both this example and the Cleeve Hill one are a bit WP:RECENT and I'm inclined to delete both, subject to other editors' views. --Old Moonraker (talk) 13:22, 6 April 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: Done. --Old Moonraker (talk) 10:10, 7 April 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Beeston Regis 

message: It was stated in Dew Ponds `History observation and experiment` by Edward A Martin in 1915 that the reason Jack and Jill went up the hill was to fetch water from a dew pond. --palmiped |  Talk   16:38, 22 April 2008 (UTC)
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message: Having now done some local research on our Dew pond in Beeston Regis, mainly by asking the locals. It has become apparent that the pond in question has always been called the Dew pond in what can only be described as living memory. It was used by the locals for refreshing livestock which was pastured on both parts of Beeston Common. It appears that the parish council are responsible for leting it become overgrown to the point were it became nothing more than a boggy, sludge bowl. As for its regeneration it was done as follows. A local contractor with a small JCB pulled all the sludge and boggy material out of the area. The shallow bowl was then carefully re-lined with a clay/chalk lining and for several weeks remained virtually empty apart from a small pool. Gradually over the Christmas period (2007/2008) the pond began to fill from rainfall and by January of 2008 it had become full. The margins of the pond are now beginning to fill with new plant life. Including a clump of Flag Iris that had always flowered in the pit that was the pond and had been carefully rescued and placed back in the new pond. It has now become a fantastic addition to this part of the common and wildlife is returning to populate the regenerated pond. Stavros1 (talk) 22:07, 25 April 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Beeston Regis Dew Pond

message: No research has been put onto Wikipedia about the cooling effect of Space on the water in a dew pond. The fact that dew ponds are insulated from the earth with straw means that they are capable of using the cold-retaining quality of water (its thermal capacity) to utilise the fact that Space is at -273℃ to chill the water in the pond at night, especially on clear nights. This needs referencing.--palmiped |  Talk   14:41, 17 July 2014 (UTC)
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message: Most of the article and the scientific literature I perused indicate that dew collection is not an actual use for dew ponds.  Is this section correct or the rest of the article?  — Preceding unsigned comment added by Icewoman27 (talk • contribs) 03:17, 25 August 2019 (UTC)
thread_title:  Measuring of dew production - does it work for dew collection?