Pond Boss Forums POND CONSTRUCTION Building a dam New pond seepage. Is this normal?

O.K.. Get fittings to adapt the garden hose ends (both of them) to a barbed fitting. Buy 8'-10' of clear hose that will fit on the barbed fitting. Drive a stake in the ground at each point where you want to measure. Attach a 1x2 to the stake so it's 4'-5' in the air. Cut clear plastic hose in half. Attach it to one end of the hose, and zip tie or bailing wire tie it to one of the stakes. Have the clear plastic start at ground level and go up the whole length of the cut piece.

Stretch hose out to other stake. Hold the end about 3' off of the ground and fill the whole thing with water so it goes up the clear plastic tube that is attached to the stake.

Attach the remaining clear plastic tube to the hose, and while holding the end up in the air so water doesn't run out, attach it to the other stake like you did with the first one.

Measure up from the ground to the water level. If there's not enough water in the hose, add it so you can measure the water level in both clear pieces of tubing. Providing you don't have an air bubble in the hose, the water at each end of the hose will be level with each other. Measure from water line to the ground at each stake. If the measurements are different it's not level.

Or find someone with a laser transit.