1 foot rise for every 1 inch of rain! I wish I were half that fortunate! Our Wood county pond watershed is many feet of sand - even with these incredible rain events runoff is scarce. I have to build several terraces to keep the sand from filling up the pond. The end result is less erosion but also a slower fill up. I only see about 3 inches of rise per inch of rain.
We close the dam at Thanksgiving and we still need 4 feet to reach the spillway.

Has anyone had luck with clearing brush and debris around the pond and compressing soil to get better runoff?

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