After the liner was keywayed and installed, I built a 8ft wife 18in clay berm around the pond with and over flow/spillway(lined and rip rap) to my other pond. We moved a massive amount OF dirt 400 yards from the pond to our home and back yard and swaled all the ground to a drain tile that goes to the new pond. The water is transfered to the new pond from small catch basin to a pipe that is booted 12 in from top of berm. Thus far it looks like my math has worked out well and I have good flow to new pond, which has increased my water shed area by huge amounts. Now perhasp both ponds will stay full as GRAVITY WORKS! I only put small amount of sand in bottom of liner. I am going to wait and see as wash sand and dirt in with a fire hose later. If this pond fails.........my wife is going to kill me, as I took her horse barn. slash budget to build it, I also did it while she was out of town forgiveness is easy permission is hard!
