Pond Boss Forums INTRO Questions & Observations low land runoff

As a basic rule of thought, silt and other stuff that flows with water will usually settle to the bottom if it stops moving. Diging a ditch or catch basin before the wate enters the pond will reduce the amount of material that water carries with it. The more water flow, the bigger the hole.

The idea is to give the water a place to slow down and then drain slowly into the pond.

The simplest way to do this is to just dig a big hole before your culvert. The hole fills up with water and the silt settles to the bottom.

In heavy rains, I've have two yard holes fill up with silt in one day. If that hole hadn't been there, there would have been that two yards of material in my pond.

I have two of these on my big pond and have dug each one out three times. I'll keep digging it out every time it fills up. Hopefuly the day will come when I have enough grass growing that this stops happeing, but until then, that's all silt that didn't make it into the pond.

Eddie