I would love to do the same, but my limit is the 1000' from the house plus no power. I may be renting a small excavator this summer to enlarge a small garden pond that my son popped the liner on and add an inflow drain pipe to the pond and cutoff some farm tile... I may run some electric down to the pond at the same time. If I do, I will also route some optical fiber so I can get data down there. I would love to have a web cam so I can check the pond during stressful times at work. Having a depth monitor to tie into my weather station would be cool to measure evap rates in the summer.
Well 1000ft is probably too long for anything but fiber. That would be a future-proof solution as well.
I am looking forward (or not) to seeing how much depth I am really losing on 100+ degree July days.
