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We did all extreme trails. Three of the seven jeeps had to be towed out.

Hey where are you getting your estimated rainfall info? Weather dot com says I may get an inch, but that's all it will predict. If you are seeing 4-6" I'd rather see that! Haha! I'm sure our place won't get that much, but it would be great to dream about it. 4-6" if it comes down hard, can add a lot of water pretty quickly.


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Jeff, that was on channel 2 last night. The 4"-6" was for St. Louis, and I think they was showing less up north but the radar on my phone shows a lot of rain up that way right now,more than down here.


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Climate dot com says I've received 2" in the last 24 hrs. With more coming. It does look like it's going to stay on the wet side until mid April. Our drought is definitely over. It'll get the pond back close to full, hopefully. Looking forward to some pics of your pond full Bob.


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RES, YP, GS, FHM (no longer), HBG (going away), SMB, and HSB (only one seen in 5 yrs) Restocked HSB (2020) Have seen one of these.
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Jeff, every time I looked at the radar today it looked like a lot of rain up north.Glad to hear your getting some good rain at your pond!Most of the rain stayed a little north of me so I didn't get as much as I thought I'd get today, I only got about .37".They are still saying I could see another 2"-4" tomorrow.I hope to be taking some pictures of it full soon,that's for sure!


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I got about another 1.33" of rain over night and it gave me another 28" in the pond. It was still rolling in pretty good too and the rain had been stopped for at least 1 1/2 hours. It started raining again as I was leaving and has been raining a little every since. Radar shows that the bigger rain is just now starting to come in. They show a path of rain stretching all the way into Texas.


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Just my luck, so far radar shows the heaviest rain staying just to the south of me, yesterday it was to the north of me. Lol!


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Bob,
I noticed your rain readings are in nearest 1/100 of an inch. Do you have a 4" gauge with the small cylinder in the center (official reporting gauge)? I just got started last week reporting with one of those. My station is AR-36-WS at www.cocorahs.org.

My newest pond is running over again, and the old leaker gained about 10 inches so far.

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John,I just have some little cheap thing.I think it is 6" and I think the smallest reading it has is tenths, I just guess at the rest.lol!I will take a look at your link!

I didn't get as much today as I thought I would.We had a lite rain all day but I only got about .60" so far and it looks like the rain is moving farther south.I did get another 14" in the pond and still had water rolling in.It's getting bigger around and starting to take a lot more water to raise it another inch.


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Bob, my rainfall report will go in around 7:15-7:30 in the morning, and will include all rain from 7:00 AM this morning until 7:00 AM tomorrow morning. I suspect it's going to be impressive.

Edit: Since 7:00 AM yesterday=2.8", three day total=3.77".

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Wow John,I wish I would of got that much.My rain gauge is a 5".I got another .10 over night for a total of 2.4 since Monday.That gave me about 4' in the pond.With what I got last week,that makes about 6', not counting the 18" or so of muck.


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The rain here added 16-1/4 inches to the old, seeping pond, still almost 4" from overflow, and put the new pond and forage pond back over the overflows.

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Still waiting on more rain. Got that 2" back on the 26th. Hoping for some April showers..


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I logged in 1.02" this morning, with a little more since. All my ponds spilling over this morning, including old seeper.

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John, I had about the same a little while ago and was still getting a few sprinkles. Pond is getting bigger,so I only gained about 4".Starting to take a lot of water to gain an inch.


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How about a picture Bob? Be nice to see the changes. It's never been this full, corrrect?


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Jeff,here is a few pictures from today.It was still raining when I took these so I hope it will be a little higher in the morning.This is the highest it's been,but still has about 10' to go.

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Looking good Bob. Got the FHM in yet? Let them start multiplying. wink


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Thanks Jeff!No FHM in it yet.After the way it was dropping at first,I want to give it a little while to make sure it don't leak to bad.If it doesn't drop to much per day I will go a head and put some in.

I went over and checked it this morning and was surprised that it came up another 6.5".It still had a nice little trickle coming in from above.The nice thing about the water that comes from above from the sediment pond,is that it is pretty clear.You can see a clear stream of water about 3' or so long and 1' or so wide going in and mixing with the muddy water.


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Bob, don't be too quick to wish for clear water. I obsessed over being clear for a couple of years, and had huge visibility last year, followed by a horrible outbreak of FA. I probably raked out well over 1,000 pounds of FA last year from a 1/4 acre pond. I would rather have muddy water than a lot of FA. With muddy water, that otter probably would not have eaten all my CC either.

BTW, our total rainfall for the past five days was 5 inches exactly, and 5.17 for the month so far.

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John,I only got about 3.5 for this week, but got about 5.5 over the last 2 weeks.The pond is still plenty muddy right now.I know there is draw backs to having clear water,but I don't know what they all are yet.The main one I knew of was the small fish get eaten faster.I must say I do like the looks of clean clear water,and would like it as clear as I can get it and not cause problems.


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Bob,
Any ponds around here that are crystal clear are completely over run by FA by late August, and are almost totally unfishable. The muddier ones don't get FA, but still seem to produce enough fish. I don't mean chocolate milk muddy, but about a foot visibility.

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John, I all I can say right now is that I hope some day that FA is all I have to worry about. Lol! I was out of town for the weekend and when I checked the pond it had dropped a little over 3".It isn't dropping as fast as it was the first time it came up, but it is still dropping to fast. It is still about 2.5' higher than the first time it came up and dropping about half as fast. Which is about about 1.5"or a little more per day.


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Bob,
The last pond I had built in Dec 2016 dropped and seeped like that the whole first spring. After a summer of settling and heavy haying equipment being driven along and on the back of the dam, The seep has slowed to something I can live with, on the order of 1/8 inch per day, and some of that may be evaporation. YYMV; that didn't happen with my first pond, which was a renovation, lacking a core in the old (60+ yrs) part of the dam.

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Bob,
Hoping your leak slows down. Hoping the rain keeps coming.
I ended up finding 3 5/8” in my rain gauge today. Pond came up 3’! So, the rain must have had a very high percent runoff. I don’t usually get that much bump from 3” of rain.


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Thanks John and Jeff!I haven't given up hope yet.lol!

Jeff,glad to hear you got some good rain!


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