We have a pond for 15 years now without any major muddy water issues, it's about 3/4ac and 15' at the deepest.
in the last 12months the lot uphill from us has been under construction and the new owners are city folk and not aware of country living and dealing with water run off from their lot. I've asked that they divert the water or put up some control measures but they have done little. Their 2 12in pipes under their new dirt driveway flow 1/3-1/2 full with hard rains and dump a bunch of mud along with the water. Our pond is about 200' from their driveway but the amount of water flow has been pretty high at time this summer. Our pond is now a sad shade of tan light clay that in 2 weeks has hardly settled out at all.
With all of the mud/clay that has already flowed in that 200' of wooded area, I suspect that that even if they stop the flow from the driveway now that the muddy water will still flow for years into our pond. I'm trying to come up with a way without digging a new pond, to take the water coming from their property onto our pond. I have about 10' of my property to work with.
Can I take like a 4" pipe say 100' long and capture the dirty water lay the pipe in my pond and exit out one of my drain pipes? Much like if you laid a garden hose in a bucket and started a siphon?
Defiantly not my first option, but the neighbors don't seam to care right now about my pond even though they put their house with about half of the front windows looking right down on it.
They have a better view of it than we do.
any suggestions?
