Still working on my leak, have it slowed but I am playing the waiting game as the water recedes and I wait for more bentonite. (I figured waiting a month the first time for delivery was a fluke... I was wrong).

Certainly if the pipe is not collared it makes sense to dig it up as no matter how much bentonite you pack around it eventually it will get past. I filled in my outflow pipe and buried the inlet for it as I just didn't trust it after the ice shifted it. Now I have built an emergency spillway that has 4 - 2 inch pipes running underneath a well grassed spillway dropping onto a rock 'staircase'. Of course I rushed to build it and now the rainy season is over...

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