Whoops I colored the highway ditch bright blue! - 03/09/09 06:44 PM
I'm having some issues with 15 year old pond dike and today found a couple of 2 inch holes where water was dropping down in the emergency overflow and disappearing. At the same time water was coming out in the highway ditch at what appeared to be the bottom of the dike. I put in about a tablespoon of concentrated Aquashade and in no time I had bright blue water in the ditch.
Unfortunately what I didn't need was a bunch of people downstream freaking out and calling the Sheriff's department, Indiana Division of Environmental Management and the local conservation officer to figure out where this pollution was coming from. (Even though in reality it's nothing more than vegetable dye but they may not know that). Honestly I didn't expect a teaspoon of this stuff to be so intense! Anyway I called them all up and gave them a heads up. So far I'm not seeing the Gestaspo showing up.
I was concerned about opening a can of worms but more concerned with getting the bill for the investigation.
Anyone ever have something like this happen? I can't wait to drain the pond and get the excavator out here. I'm draining ASAP even though he won't be able to make it for a month or two. I'm not having a dike burst onto the highway!
Unfortunately what I didn't need was a bunch of people downstream freaking out and calling the Sheriff's department, Indiana Division of Environmental Management and the local conservation officer to figure out where this pollution was coming from. (Even though in reality it's nothing more than vegetable dye but they may not know that). Honestly I didn't expect a teaspoon of this stuff to be so intense! Anyway I called them all up and gave them a heads up. So far I'm not seeing the Gestaspo showing up.
I was concerned about opening a can of worms but more concerned with getting the bill for the investigation.
Anyone ever have something like this happen? I can't wait to drain the pond and get the excavator out here. I'm draining ASAP even though he won't be able to make it for a month or two. I'm not having a dike burst onto the highway!