Welcome to the forum. Yep, a french drain should work. trench parallel to the pond bank, run a few drain fingers from that to the pond. If the french drain is lower than the water level in the pond, the water will back up in it from the pond, but once the water in it is higher than the pond water level it will drain into the pond.


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