Cecil,
Thanks for the info. Your right about the expense of running well water, but my problem is the very cold weather. My gravity flow pipes run 300ft from above a waterfall,and with the thin soil and very rocky ground i really can't bury them. I have some insulation on one of them but when it gets below zero, and with the stream water pretty cold it froze. Last year it froze on dec. 1 with a temp of 5 below zero, and only 6" of snow on the ground. We do get as much as 30 below. I did consider putting heat tape on it, but that would use more power than a pump, and we can get frequent power outages. Since i don't live at my pond i might not be there to run the generator if the power goes out.
The reason im considering well water is the water temp at 50 degrees, and because i had alot of fill brought in to put my cabin on, i can bury the pipe the 150 ft. down the hill to the pond.
You were right when you told me this spring that the trout probably sank, and decomposed, i only found 1 dead trout.
This really Bummed me out, so hopefully between aerating shallow, and keeping the water level up my trout will survive the winter.
Thanks again for the info.
March 28 2008, Winter stays late here.
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