I've quit counting. All ponds are just slightly running the emergency overflow areas. Some nominal flooding in the small creeks.
We are not in bad shape yet, but the stage is set for some serious flooding should we get heavy rains now. Everything saturated and full with the forecast for rain all today and tomorrow. Hopefully not heavy rain.
... We are not in bad shape yet, but the stage is set for some serious flooding should we get heavy rains now. Everything saturated and full with the forecast for rain all today and tomorrow. Hopefully not heavy rain.
Same here. Our "normally" .4 acre is around .75. 2 inches so far but came not too hard. Forecast for heavier rain tonight and tomorrow. Times like this is one of the reasons I built my pump house on pilings 40 inches above the ground.
Climate.com says I've got another 3" in the last 24 hrs, and more coming. When my pond was down about 4' I moved the fish feeder a little towards the water. I may have the bottom of the actual feeder submerged at this point. I won't even be able to check on it until next Tuesday. I've been griping so much about the drought for the last 18 months, I'm going to have to find something else to gripe about.
9 yr old pond, 1 ac, 15' deep. RES, YP, GS, FHM (no longer), HBG (going away), SMB, and HSB (only one seen in 5 yrs) Restocked HSB (2020) Have seen one of these. I think that's about all I should put in my little pond. Otter attack in 2023
Prayers sent. May not be the time or place to say it, but the rain has been going around my place for so long I can't remember when I have had more than an inch of rain at the pond. Crazy, how it rains all over E Texas but not so much at my place, Crazy!!
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Prayers sent. May not be the time or place to say it, but the rain has been going around my place for so long I can't remember when I have had more than an inch of rain at the pond. Crazy, how it rains all over E Texas but not so much at my place, Crazy!!
Tracy, I'm a bit south of you, but we got another inch yesterday evening and last night combined. It was a good steady rain though. I broadcast seeded my lawn with Bermuda on Thursday evening. Hopefully, the steady rain will set it in. My pond has been at full pool all year. Charlie
We got hard rain yesterday and in the middle of the night but still only got 2 inches. With a little run off the pond should have come up about 4 inches still leaving me about a foot low. Like you Tracy, rain going all around us.I have not been at full pool since June of 2016!!!!
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Our storm total was 3.9 inches here. Only seven miles to the NW, they got over 7 inches. Glad I didn't get seven, as the old pond was only a half inch from spilling over before this event.
December 28 of 2015, I had water going out the overflow pipe. That was last time. Had rain in August of 2016, that got me back up to within 12.25" of overflow. Tracy, I feel your pain. I've watched radar countless times as big fronts have zeroed in on our little place. Then magically right before we get rain, it splits north and south. There's a 17,000 AC lake just west of me, about a mile. I was convinced that the lake must be able to effect the weather. We are getting hit now. I may be to the overflow pipe. Not sure, as I can't get there. I did look at the news about the storms and tornados that hit TX. Prayers definitely going out to those folks. My problems seem trivial. I've heard the saying, "no whining on the yacht." I certainly don't have a yacht, but I'm blessed..
9 yr old pond, 1 ac, 15' deep. RES, YP, GS, FHM (no longer), HBG (going away), SMB, and HSB (only one seen in 5 yrs) Restocked HSB (2020) Have seen one of these. I think that's about all I should put in my little pond. Otter attack in 2023
SetterGuy, I think getting up to full pool repeatedly helps newer ponds with seepage problems to seal by hastening the settling and consolidation of the clay in the dam as it becomes more saturated at full pool. Maybe this will help your leak situation.
My pond is spilling. I left an empty bucket in the yard before this last rain event, and it had 7" of water in it this afternoon. It had stopped raining here by the time I got up (late) this morning. Still partly cloudy, so I might get more rain, but I've had more than enough.
Hope so. The loss of 1/4" a day is a lot, when it doesn't rain for months and months. I'd be happier with 0" per day. Ha!
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9 yr old pond, 1 ac, 15' deep. RES, YP, GS, FHM (no longer), HBG (going away), SMB, and HSB (only one seen in 5 yrs) Restocked HSB (2020) Have seen one of these. I think that's about all I should put in my little pond. Otter attack in 2023
The local COE reservoir completed in 1965 only had to open the flood gates twice since its construction and 2002. Since 2002, six times. 2002,2004,2008,2011,2015,2017. It seems to have become the new normal. We always thought the dams were over designed, but the last several years is exactly what they were designed for.
Flame, same same here with little measurable rain since last June. Last weekend it rained all day here in S Shreveport but just 20 mi west on the farm I got 1/4". I plant year round wildlife food plots and always plant on or around the end of sept for the fall rains. I had no rain till Last December. Really had no measurable rain during June through December. My watershed is not great but will usually keep up, but not this year. Like I said its been like a drought at my place.
That's right Charlie, throw full pool in my face lol
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Here is a before and after for ya. Talk about some rain this weekend we put the new dock to the test!! Notice though in the after picture my feeder is gone!! lol It's ok but I guess I need to put a little more slack in the rope!!
RC
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Just talked to my neighbor up at the farm. He said 6.5" since it started last week. There was one 1/2" rain last night, after everything was already saturated, that came down in a few minutes. He said every bit of that ran off. I'm thinking my feeder might be a little damp.
Edit, QuarterAcre, your pond looks good. (Filled). Don't they all? Ha. It looks like you've got some rock mixed in with your clay, similar to mine. Very nice setting though. I like trees around a pond.
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9 yr old pond, 1 ac, 15' deep. RES, YP, GS, FHM (no longer), HBG (going away), SMB, and HSB (only one seen in 5 yrs) Restocked HSB (2020) Have seen one of these. I think that's about all I should put in my little pond. Otter attack in 2023
Don't mind the floating pallets. One cinder block was not enough to hold some of them down. Time to go swimming!
The rocks look good. If the pallets are for FHM nesting sites they are fine floating but they should be staked in place so they do not roam around. They will eventually saturate and sink.
If you want them to sink and they are permanent structure you might want to rethink how you use them. Putting them in a Tee-Pee formation with big zip ties (bought where they sell airco ducting supplies) or screws. Just the pallets alone sunk in a matter of a few years they will not even be bumps on the bottom as silt surrounds them. More vertical height is better. Or just stack them together three or four high. If they are for FHM and you want them to sink in shallow water you might want to tie a rope on them so you can pull them out later. In a year or two your FHM will be gone and the pallets will not provide much structure laying flat on the bottom.
From 4' of visibility to 6" in a week - I really need to address the sediment inflow
Some of that may be sediment but it looks like you have a nice green algae bloom going. Good if you want to raise fish. Not so good if you want clear water. Looks like a healthy bloom to me. I would be happy with that in my pond.
Some places in SW Missouri could use an Ark. Terrible flooding.
We are flooded here in the creek bottoms on farm land, but that is kind of a normal occurrence at least once every four or five years. I'm pretty sure the water will get high enough to get in some low lying homes though which is really bad. Times like this I'm glad our house is on the top of a hill.
4.5" yesterday, .75 the day before and somewhere around 6" the week before so everything was saturated.
SetterGuy - yes, the pond looks much better full. I have been waiting since Oct of last year for this moment and one of the reasons I bought this place was because it had rocks. Sometimes my back disagrees however.
snrub - the pallets are (were) stacked 3 high with regular bricks between each and with cinderblocks under the bottom ones on the deep side to level them somewhat. Who knows what's going on now. I'll have to wait for the water to clear up and take a boat ride to investigate. Hopefully I do not have a bunch pallets on the very bottom! Ponds are fun aren't they?