Horizontal Well to Fill Pond with Cold Water? - 04/30/18 09:28 PM
Hi Folks,
My wife and I are about to snap up some land in the northern VA/northeastern WV area for a hunting/fishing retreat, and are going to build a pond of 2-3 acres on the property. We are attempting to decide between a few different sites, and several of them have land that varies over 100 feet in altitude over the 10-30 acres of the lots.
One of these lots does not have a stream or creek either going through it or along its border, and so we had the idea that perhaps we could find water on the higher part of the property, and then drill horizontally to get to the water and have it flow out and fill a pond.
We are very new to pond construction, and so I am wondering whether this is a practice that has been followed before.
A great side benefit of this would be that the water that would come from the horizontal well/spring would be cold, and would make for good breeding habitat for trout if we constructed it as such.
Thanks, and I look forward to hearing your experiences!
My wife and I are about to snap up some land in the northern VA/northeastern WV area for a hunting/fishing retreat, and are going to build a pond of 2-3 acres on the property. We are attempting to decide between a few different sites, and several of them have land that varies over 100 feet in altitude over the 10-30 acres of the lots.
One of these lots does not have a stream or creek either going through it or along its border, and so we had the idea that perhaps we could find water on the higher part of the property, and then drill horizontally to get to the water and have it flow out and fill a pond.
We are very new to pond construction, and so I am wondering whether this is a practice that has been followed before.
A great side benefit of this would be that the water that would come from the horizontal well/spring would be cold, and would make for good breeding habitat for trout if we constructed it as such.
Thanks, and I look forward to hearing your experiences!