Originally posted by wickedinhere:
I was wondering how much rain you texas and louisiana guys got last night with that storm that blew in. we got about 3 inches. Bobad hows the newly finished pond looking?
Hey Wicked,
My little rain gage collected 4.6" from about dark Friday night through Saturday at noon. Most of it fell in a very short time as a band of hard rain passed over at about 6am on Saturday morning.
I couldn't resist driving out to the pond and slogging through the water and mud to see if everything was working as designed. The ditches were collecting about 75% of the runoff (still lots of work to do!), and were flowing briskly into the limestone "fish filter" I built. The crushed limestone gravel didn't even slow the water down. It was instantly disappearing with a nice rushing sound, and flowing under the levee through the 10" pipe just as I intended. (That's a load off my mind!) I guess the pond is about 1/2 full by now. I guess your pond is brimming full by now, and I hope everyone's is!
(Edited for insufficient stupidity)
Happy New Year to all!
