Where to start when answering all these questions.. Hummm
A dry pond if not a solution.. there will be no space for it.. the total area of the land is 2 acres.. and 1/2 acre is for the house 1/2 acres for the pond.. 1 acre for the fruit and cocco trees..
A suck well is a very common thing here.. They are no big deal..You just dig down to bed rock.. which is coral rock..very pourious.. and things just suckaway..lol There are a lot of things that would make you shudder that can be done in a 3rd world country that you can not get away with in the US..I'm an Ex-PAt so I know.. There are very few codes here.. They have JUST started building codes.. and what a joke they are..GRIN..
OH Rad you must have been here durring Ivan.. and that was a weak hurricane to say the least.. Where I live we got only wind..and no rain..but the island to the south got really wacked..Grenada.
All the pond will do is catch water that moves into it. Once it's full, the water will do what the water did before the pond was there...unless you radically change the landscape around it.
When reading these post again.. I like this argument..I will use it with Town and country planning..It makes a logical case..for the spillway..
When you say water prrof the wet pond with clay.. Help this tiny mind and explain that process???
MR Moderator No worries.. about silly Banter..I a tuff ol bird and can take it as well as dish it out.. :-) so let them be silly.. I not get vexed..
Red Strip.. Is a Jamican beer.. Not Bajan..