Originally Posted by Bill Cody
Coat the outside basement walls with a good thick tar-like coating then add subsurface drain tile around the footer and connect tile to some sort of outlet tile or make a sump pit and pump out the sump. Basement Pros know how to do this.
Exactly what I would have said. But Bill's pond is right next to his house, so he's been there and done that.

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