Yeah There are ponds in the local area.. but They all are used for irrigation and have liners..and even thinking the liner idea puts this idea out of any reasonable price range for me. There is also the mentality here we do it this way cuz we have ALWAYS done it that way. no matter that just around the corner from where I live there is a natural pond that has no liner.
This attitude pervades this culture..simply put there is only the Bajan way. I could digress with so many examples but why bore you with them.. GRIN..
As to the natural flow of water.. unfortunately there are no gullies in the area above the land.. this chunk of dirt is one of the high points..so I can not gather or send excess water in that manner.
Listening to you Rad and what your situation is sounds really similar to mine.. so if you are saying you have very little overflow from your spillway.. then I might just be lucky and not need to worry about this..
Let ask you how deep is your pond and how long did it take to fill???
I Was talking to a friend today about this pond problem.. and his position was just build it and don't ask. He's a native Bajan.... in some ways its easier to ask for forgiveness then permission.
Somebody said something about waterproofing I asked for some explanation about this..but they never elaborated.. Maybe they will this time..GRIN
here a bit of information that might be useful/fun.. I posted the location on Google Earth..
Hope it works. When I doubled checked the link the Goggle Maps don't have the location.. so view thru Google Earth
http://bbs.keyhole.com/ubb/showflat.php/Cat/0/Number/1113269/an/0/page/0#1113269
