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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.
Yep the bloom started rolling right before the rains came - Its a welcome sign. Most of my FA was knocked down or went through the overflow and the curly leaf is starting to brown. I need to take care of the runoff from the feeder creeks and the outflow of the upstream pond which flows into mine
Mat Peirce 1.25 acre southeast Iowa pond LMB, BG, YP, WE, HSB, RES, BCP
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SetterGuy, Looking at this morning's radar picture, I will say your pond water is likely running out the overflow pipe.
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Yeah I'm getting hit again too. Ugh....
The only difference between a rut and a Grave is the depth. So get up get out of that rut and get moving!! Time to work!!
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We are about 5" over normal this year, and another inch in the forecast the remainder of this week. Lake Ontario shoreline is having some big problems with flooding, as well as the St. Lawrence river.
I'm getting a little tired of the floods of milk chocolate going into the pond that I have to run out in the pouring rain and divert. I think I have a little concrete work to do in order to make a sluice way to re-direct flood waters automatically, but let normal flow through.
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I think we're finally seeing light at the end of the tunnel! I've had over 10 inches of rain over the past 7 days. The discharge pipe did its job perfectly with no water going over the emergency spillway! Glad that is over!
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We got another .9" yesterday and last night. I think we are done. I don't think it ever got high enough to go out through the overflow pipe. Very close, but not quite. Now, I hope we don't have to wait until Dec for our next shower.. There's so many folks hurting around here because of too much water. I have no complaints. I think our annual rainfall is in the 36-38" range.
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
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we had close to 2" when I left for work tonight at 730 . plus another 1.5 on the way. great for my new pond that is filling, but I feel bad for all the farmers around. we had 2 inches last week also. some minor flooding going on here. ohio average rainfall in 37.5".
.75 acre pond dug in September 2016. YP, HBG, HSB, SMB, and RES.
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May 3rd we got 3 and 6/10 inch out of all that severe storms. Pond is still about 10-11 inches low!! And I'm in deep east Texas. Most of it went right above and below us.
Dear Alcohol, We had a deal where you would make me funnier, smarter, and a better dancer... I saw the video... We need to talk.
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It is going to be cold, gray, wet, and miserable here for the next 10 days except for a small break around Tuesday. Snow is even in the forecast. Needless to say, spirits are low, so we have to get some spirits to fill them back up. ;-).
Only saving grace is I don't need to add dye to the pond as there is plenty of gunk already performing that task.
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May 3rd we got 3 and 6/10 inch out of all that severe storms. Pond is still about 10-11 inches low!! And I'm in deep east Texas. Most of it went right above and below us. I got 2.75" of the liquid stuff but the ice cubes wouldn't fit in the gauge.
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T bar we also had a hard rain also. Ground was covered with golf ball and smaller hard water. Little over a half inch made it into the gauge
Last edited by Pat Williamson; 05/05/17 03:13 PM.
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In Ontario Canada this week we are at 3"s since Monday.
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It's not about the fish. It's about the pond. Take care of the pond and the fish will be fine. PB subscriber since before it was in color.
Without a sense of urgency, Nothing ever gets done.
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In the last couple weeks or so we have had right around a foot total of rain. Nice sunny day today and the creeks are back down off the bottom fields. Be nice to see a few weeks of good weather now so we can catch up.
John
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I think we had around ten inches within a four day period. Brother had been watching weather forecasts and started eight inch siphon three days before rain started and it was making us worry about whether would go over reseeded spillway. Wound up being ok.
Have a nice screenshot from my radar but don't have photo bucket account.
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Here are some pictures in and around Boldt Castle in the St. Lawrence. Highest I have ever seen, and I have been going up there since I was born. This is outflow from Lake Ontario, which is the highest it has been on over 20 years, and still rising. https://www.facebook.com/BoldtCastle/?fref=nf
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Just received another 2" yesterday, probably more. Luckily the denser greenery kept the chocolate milk to a minimum. Fish are not too happy about it though, none to be seen. They were very social yesterday begging for food.
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We are 4" over total rainfall for the year, but in the past 3 weeks have only received about 3/8". First 17 days of that time period we had a total of 0.17" rain. The ponds around here are dropping fast.
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We have had another 1.2" since the last posting. Getting kind of silly. True to climate change predictions in the NE though.
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Had 1.6" here (just north of Savannah, GA) this afternoon. More expected tonight and tomorrow.
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Nothing in NW LA nor NE Texas yet. Tomorrow supposed to rain 4.5 inches in Shreveport, less than 2 inches 60 miles west where my BOW is located.
7ac 2015 CNBG RES FHM 2016 TP FLMB 2017 NLMB GSH L 2018 TP & 70 HSB PK 2019 TP RBT 2020 TFS TP 25 HSB 250 F1,L,RBT -206 2021 TFS TP GSH L,-312 2022 GSH TP CR TFS RBT -234, 2023 BG TP TFS NLMB, -160
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Looks like their predicting Cindy to go right over Shreveport
1 ac pond LMB, BG, RES, CC
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Over 4" in the last 24hrs, 6"+ in last 2 days, Just over 40" on the year.
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Yes, but not nearly as much rain as forecast. Total of less than 1 inch today where we live east of Shreveport, same at our BOW.
Few or no thunderstorms at all, most rain moderate. Around here, much ado about a nothingburger...
Last edited by anthropic; 06/22/17 07:58 PM.
7ac 2015 CNBG RES FHM 2016 TP FLMB 2017 NLMB GSH L 2018 TP & 70 HSB PK 2019 TP RBT 2020 TFS TP 25 HSB 250 F1,L,RBT -206 2021 TFS TP GSH L,-312 2022 GSH TP CR TFS RBT -234, 2023 BG TP TFS NLMB, -160
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