Day 1 Pond Updates

NoTrespassing · Sep 2, 2003

Thanks Jim, It should be about 30ft. deep, maybe 35 ft. in spots. The red shale or red dog as they call it around here goes for 10 bucks a yard hauled in. People usually use it for a base and then put white rock on top of it but I like the way it looks. They put our driveway in 3 yrs. ago and it's held up well so far.

Kevin

gmason · Sep 3, 2003

This picture of the water coming out of the pipe concerns me a little. It looks like there is still a good deal of fall from the pipe to the stream where the water finaly slows down a little. With that large pipe you need some really large boulders to slow the water down and disperse the energy. Or you'll see a large gouge in the backside of the pond dam.
With that size pipe ~2', you must expect some tremendous amounts of water flow. And with a huge amount of force when that water hits the slope.
Well just my 2cents /forums/images/graemlins/wink.gif... from a pond owner/builder

gary

NoTrespassing · Sep 3, 2003

Thanks for your concern. What the picture doesn't show that well are the large pieces of concrete under the culvert. We took the old bridge and put it there. I may take a couple more pictures this evening and put em up.
Kevin