Originally Posted By: catmandoo
Mike -- I was just checking the weather to see what I can get outdoors in the next several days. This was at the top of the weather page:

Andrea Shatters Records: Raleigh to NYC to Boston

By Kristina Pydynowski, Senior Meteorologist
June 08, 2013; 5:11 PM

Numerous rainfall records were shattered, with flooding being triggered in the process, as Andrea moved up the East Coast on Friday.

Raleigh, New York City, Philadelphia and Boston are among the many communities (a full list is given below) that experienced their rainiest June 7 in recorded history on Friday.

Is it possible that this might have had some effect on your pond level? grin crazy cry


Looks like you were right. They are now saying avondale had 4.20 in 24hrs. I think for now I will lower the air pipe so the siphon starts sooner. I also ordered a 4" ball valve so I can manually start the siphon if I want to draw down the pond some in the event of anouther hurricane or tropical storm. Next year after I save up some more money I will install a second 10" siphon right next to the one I have. This hopefully will be able to handle the big rain events. I think adding a foot or two to the dam wouldn't hurt either. I'm just dissapointed that I spent so much on this and it still will keep me up at night when the heavy stuff happens.