Treeplanter,
If you pump water in i would feed your outtake hose into a larger rigid drainage pipe lying on the bottom to keep it from gouging up the bottom, swishing around, and stirring up the bottom at first. You may have to weight down the outtake hose with concrete block to hold it in place.
I always do this when refilling my ponds with my well water and I've got a rope tied to the ridge pipe so I can pull it back out.
There are also ways to screen out invasives such as dumping the inflow into a screened box.
Last edited by Cecil Baird1; 05/24/09 11:29 PM.
