For those that know more about this than me, I need suggestions on where to direct the water. The pic shows brown as roads/paths, red is the old culvert, dark blue is the ditch/creek, and light blue is the overflow direction. The western shore is quite a bit higher the the woods and ditch behind it, it is where the pond builders dumped a lot of dirt a long time ago. Water comes down the ditch to the culvert and when it backs up it goes over the forest floor to the pond. The culvert is ~12-14" rusting steel and the top is slightly above grade(no dirt). The bottom of it sits probably 12" above the ditch bottom; so water sits back there a lot instead of draining. Once I move the entrance, no vehicles will travel over the culvert. The options I see are:
1: Rebury new culvert low enough to drain ditch properly.
2: Remove culvert comletely, extend ditch to pond, and put foot bridge over ditch.
3. Remove culvert and route ditch where overflow travels pond.
runoff directions at old culvert by
jeffreythree1, on Flickr
