Pond Boss Magazine
https://www.pondboss.com/images/userfiles/image/20130301193901_6_150by50orangewhyshouldsubscribejpeg.jpg
Advertisment
Newest Members
Shotgun01, Dan H, Stipker, LunkerHunt23, Jeanjules
18,451 Registered Users
Forum Statistics
Forums36
Topics40,902
Posts557,116
Members18,452
Most Online3,612
Jan 10th, 2023
Top Posters
esshup 28,420
ewest 21,475
Cecil Baird1 20,043
Bill Cody 15,112
Who's Online Now
1 members (anthropic), 750 guests, and 227 robots.
Key: Admin, Global Mod, Mod
Previous Thread
Next Thread
Print Thread
#44731 07/09/03 12:57 PM
Joined: Jul 2002
Posts: 16
E
Member
OP Offline
Member
E
Joined: Jul 2002
Posts: 16
I live in southern michigan about 15 minutes south of k-zoo and about 30 north of Indiana and we have been getting some good rain as of late. My friends to the south are getting drowned and I was thinking to myself what kind of problems could I anticipate if a=say my area got 16 inches of rain over a several day period in regards to my overall pond management. I think cecil lives in northern Indiana maybe he would comment?

#44732 07/09/03 02:06 PM
Joined: Aug 2002
Posts: 20,043
Likes: 1
Hall of Fame
Lunker
Offline
Hall of Fame
Lunker
Joined: Aug 2002
Posts: 20,043
Likes: 1
Eric,

I lucked out. It's farther south of me. We got some rain here but nothing like farther south.

All I can say is have a large enough diameter overflow (mine is a stone lined trench with the bottom at the level I want the water to get up to before overflowing as I don't trust pipes underground even with collars). This feeds into a large diameter pipe weighted down with stone, that dumps into a highway ditch. I have water running out of it 24/7 as my trout pond which receives well water 24/7 overflows into this pond.

The setup I have is typically called an "emergency overflow." I really should have another one too.

However, in my case since I have a well I have set up my ponds so that watershed water mostly bypasses me with a berm etc. You may want to consider a bypass option if you got too much water.


If pigs could fly bacon would be harder to come by and there would be a lot of damaged trees.






#44733 07/09/03 06:17 PM
Joined: Apr 2002
Posts: 1,892
D
Lunker
Offline
Lunker
D
Joined: Apr 2002
Posts: 1,892
Cecil, Build a big enough berm to get it to North Texas. As usual, we are short on water.


Link Copied to Clipboard
Today's Birthdays
cro, HC1968
Recent Posts
Relative weight charts in Excel ? Calculations?
by esshup - 03/29/24 01:06 AM
pond experience needed
by esshup - 03/29/24 12:45 AM
New pond middle TN: establishing food chain?
by Bill Cody - 03/28/24 07:57 PM
Happy Birthday Bob Lusk!!
by FireIsHot - 03/28/24 07:33 PM
Working on a .5acre disaster, I mean pond.
by PRCS - 03/28/24 06:39 PM
Fungus infection on fish
by nvcdl - 03/28/24 06:07 PM
Can anyone ID these minnows?
by Dylanfrely - 03/28/24 05:43 PM
1 year after stocking question
by esshup - 03/28/24 04:48 PM
Yellow Perch Spawn 2024
by H20fwler - 03/28/24 04:29 PM
New 2 acre pond stocking plan
by LANGSTER - 03/28/24 03:49 PM
Paper-shell crayfish and Japanese snails
by esshup - 03/28/24 10:39 AM
Newly Uploaded Images
Eagles Over The Pond Yesterday
Eagles Over The Pond Yesterday
by Tbar, December 10
Deer at Theo's 2023
Deer at Theo's 2023
by Theo Gallus, November 13
Minnow identification
Minnow identification
by Mike Troyer, October 6
Sharing the Food
Sharing the Food
by FishinRod, September 9
Nice BGxRES
Nice BGxRES
by Theo Gallus, July 28
Snake Identification
Snake Identification
by Rangersedge, July 12

� 2014 POND BOSS INC. all rights reserved USA and Worldwide

Powered by UBB.threads™ PHP Forum Software 7.7.5