I am not an expert but the horizontal pipe does control your pond level. The air break is for when it goes in turbo mode. I may be wrong, but that is the way I see it working.

61 acre water shed lake. bass, channel cat, black crappie, wiper, walleye, redear sunfish, blue catfish and bluegill. To many bullhead and common carp
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