keeping a pond full

[cchoate]

The past two summers I've had my 14' deep, 1 acre pond drop around 6' or so due to lack of rain. It does fill in the spring, but looks bad all summer.
My solution is to run a 1" water line from the down spouts on my house to the pond, around 160' on a downward slope. When it does rain, I'm hoping the pond will get alot more water. If this dosen't work out, I might try using my well on the same water line. Never had a problem with the well, only had to drill 35'.
Anybody ever try this? Anybody see any flaws?

 

[Anonymous Poster]

Hi,

take a look at this thread on CBN</font color=blue>

Some interesting discussion with some numbers and so on...not exactly the same question, but certainly related...

Bill in Pgh, PA

 

[Anonymous Poster]

Whoops!

I was thinking of the thread that was here in this forum, and later moved...but you must have read the one here...same subject...most of the posts I was thinking of are here in this forum...

Sorry...Bill

 

[wroughtn_harv]

That shallow a well you might consider one, a windmill or two, an occasional hit with a good gasoline pump.

The windmill will give you great scenery along with a cheap way to get the water out of the well.

They are not that expensive. And I understand Aeromotor is alive and well. (pun intended)

 

[MossRoad]

I'd be curios to see if the level of your pond corresponds to the level in your well. It probably wouldn't hurt to direct rain water off your roof to the pond. After all, it just runs off your roof and either runs downhill to the pond or soaks into the ground water. That 4" flexible drainpipe is pretty inexpensive. And trenching = tractortime /w3tcompact/icons/smile.gif

 

[njrqs]

Chris

An up until now I thought all you yanks had full dams al lthe time.

All I hear about are spring fed dams and lovely stuff like that.

My dam, like yours, relies on rainfall only, and so looks pretty [censored] daggy for a lot of the year. It dries totally at times.

I have built wing walls to catch every precious drop of the stuff but not gone as far as piped roof water to the dam (But have liked the idea)

Mine needs heavy downpours to fill it. Soaking rain does nothing.

I think you'll need bigger than the 1" pipe you talk about.

Cheers

 

[cstocks]

Hey Neil,
Were you ever able to retrieve your boots from the muck in the bottom of your dam?/w3tcompact/icons/grin.gif

 

[BB_TX]

Is your pond leaking? In our hot Texas summers, I would expect that much evaporation, but not in your area. If your soil is porous, it is very likely leaking into the ground or thru your dam. There have been some threads here in the past on something you could add to the water and it would help seal the bottom of your pond. But I don't remember what is was called to do a search on. I am sure someone else will remember.

 

[Bird]

Is bentonite what you're thinking of. Never used it, but have heard it's very good (and also a bit expensive).

 

[hazmat]

<font color=blue>I think you'll need bigger than the 1" pipe you talk about.</font color=blue>

You defininetly want a bigger pipe. you don't have any presure to push the water thru the pipe. I'd go with 4" smooth pvc (the corrugated has too much friction for such a long run)