Not sure where to post this question but my property has a wet weather creek that runs in the very back of it. I never looked at it seriously as a water source for my pond but after our last rain a week ago I've been monitoring it, and the creek is still running. Has anyone tried to pump water from a wet weather creek before? The creek naturally pools on my property, I think it holds maybe a 1/4 acre ft of water, maybe less but the flow rate is still good enough to likely fill it back up with in 24 hours. Given that I'm only going to be building a 1 acre tank this doesn't sound like an insignificant amount of water. My thoughts would be to get a submersible pump with a float switch so that it would turn on once the creek had water in it. The negative is that during a heavy rain this creek can really flood, so whatever I put down there needs to be able to withstand a good amount of flood water or else it will just be swept downstream. Looking for any advice.
