I've only been on Pondboss a little over a year and my lake is less than one year old. I'm relatively green yet, but went with a spillway for my lake. I'm glad I did.

I have about 10 acres of watershed for each acre of lake. We've had some unusually big rains and I had water 8 feet wide and 1 feet deep going over my spillway at one point this spring. It would have take a pretty big pipe to handle that. With the spillway, it wasn't a problem. It will never rust, plug, or freeze either.

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