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#161199 04/29/09 06:36 PM
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Somewhere between 8 and 10 inches of rain fell today over my mud hole of a pond. Anyone have any idea how much it will rise with a 100 acre watershed. It was dug two years ago and has never been over one half full as of last June when it had about 12 feet of water in it. It has since dropped 7 feet due to the drought. If it ever fills up there should be about 5 acres of water. It will be a day or two until I get up there. Any bets how much it came up. Here's a picture of when it was half full...du




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If it is not full I would be really surprised.

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I'll bet the the emergency spillway is working overtime!


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Well you all, my neighbor just called me from my pond dam. The water is running over the spillway. My pontoon boat, which was sitting on the pond's mud bottom and the floating boat dock that I built last summer have both floated off to some part of the pond. Hallelujah!!!!!


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david post some before and after pictures.

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Hokey Smokes...it is done! That is really great news, David. I'm dyin' to see the pics. Big high five, Pondmeister.

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Same story in northern Grayson County. More water than I have ever seen at LL,2. Amazing. Water running everwhere. A local half acre pond, down six feet, was full and running over in two hours. I bet we had 5 inches in two hours and then a total over 9, maybe 10 inches since 11:30 this morning. Still raining. Like a freight train of clouds, all day. Now, I'll actually get to see how fish move...(tongue in cheek, of course.)


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That does it. I'm going tomorrow.


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DD1, give up a report, I can't go until Sunday

david u, where are you located? I'm directly south of Lake Nocona

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I'm with you Dave. Funny, I have considered drilling a well to pump water into the pond, since this pond didn't seem like it would ever fill up(in my lifetime). But after doing the math, decided even with it running 24/7, it wouldn't fill it up even after a year. But Mother Nature-Devine intervention filled it with what I have guessed to be over 13 Million gallons of water in less than 12 hours! I'm just amazed..may not sleep a wink tonite... This ranks right up there with getting into vet school, getting married, having a child..is this wierd or what...du


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On the radar, it looks like more, a lot more, came overnight and is still at it this morning. Lusk told me last night that Otto was stranded. HWY 82 is shut down and it appears that Mike got even more than Bob did.

BTW, I got 3/10 here in Hurst.

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I think everyone got quite a bit of rain across northeast Texas. Another inch fell here at my house last night. Problem is about 1.5" fell yesterday and last night out at my pond and it was already full, and that makes the monthly total over 5". A neighbor was building a new pond down stream from ours. I hope he did not leave his dozer parked in the bottom like he has been.

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This is the total precipitation for Montague, Cooke County area last night & this morning




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That's just amazing. I haven't seen any pictures yet, but have just heard about the areas with over 15 inches of rain! It looks like a pretty big area that got over ten inches and a massive area with 6 inches or more. All that water wont have anywhere to go for some time. That's just frightening!!!

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Looks like I got at least 2.5" of rain at my place with a saturated watershed. I bet my pond has come up 1-2'.


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The report I got this morning is the big pond up by Lusk, some call it Lake Texoma, will rise 1-2'. For those that don't know that is 89,000 acres of lake.

Just a side, one of my employees that lives in Gainesville is trying to dry out his house this morning instead of comming to work. I guess that is a good excuss but a bad way to spend a day.


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Wow, that is a lot of rain! If that happened here, our whole place would be washed away. \:\(

Hopefully it is helping the areas with drought.


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I got 3.85 inches. Lusk told me yesterday that Sherman Wyman got 15 inches and blew out the dam on his 6 acre lake.


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Ouch!


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Ouch!


I ask again, male or female? \:\) that always cracks me up. for newbies, that is one of Theo's obsessions.



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Im actually really glad we didn't get that rain you guys got here in Ennis. Last time we got 10" of ran the water went over the DAM of or 30 acre lake. It was running out of its spillway about 40 yards across and 8ft deep.

Anyways, someone up above must have been keeping the dam from breaking because in some places it was running over 10" deep. What is usually a 30 acre breaming full lake was now almost 40 acres when the water started pouring over the dam.

It was pretty scary to see it.


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 Originally Posted By: burgermeister
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Ouch!


I ask again, male or female? \:\) that always cracks me up. for newbies, that is one of Theo's obsessions.

Female.


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Here are the before and after pics of my 3 days ago almost dry pond. I actually haven't taken any recent photos of the pond going dry(too depressed), but have a pic to illustrate what it looked like on 4-28-2009.



The following pics show the pond yesterday, 4-29-2009 after the rain








I figured this pond to hold over 13 million gallons of water(5 surface acres x 8' average) the depth at the dam is 18 - 22' deep. it took less than 10 hours to essentially fill it up...du


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David, how many inches did you get?


It's not about the fish. It's about the pond. Take care of the pond and the fish will be fine. PB subscriber since before it was in color.

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DD1, somewhere btween 12" - 15" in less than 15 hours


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