Pond Boss Forums POND CONSTRUCTION Renovating a Pond or Lake? Help with directing runoff

If the ground in front of the culvert is easily accessible for equipment to clean out the ditch, I'd rather use it as a sediment trap rather than have the dirt wash into the pond. Toss in a netful of FH or mosquito fish and they'll take care of the skeeters.

Dig the ditch a bit deeper, drop the culvert so it's below grade (replacing it with a good one at the same time). If you did that, you could increase the size of the culvert at the same time to handle the larger volume of water.