It's been a dry year here in WV also. One of the benefits of an undersized watershed is that when the monsoons do come, you are not going to have to worry about a breach as much as the guy with too big of watershed area.

I had two alternatives when I built my 1 acre pond with its 10 acre +/- watershed. One was to drill a well and feed it continuously and two was bury 600' of 2" pipe up from the stream below. I settled on the latter for a number of reasons. Have you looked into a well?

Last edited by ToddM; 11/30/15 02:39 PM.