I have a natural spring in my yard but the water drains out down my driveway. I want to build a pond or find a way to stop the drainage. Suggestion

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I have a natural spring that drains down the driveway. I want to build a pond but not sure how with the water drainage.
 

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How neat to have a natural spring to use for a pond!
Might be helpful to see photo's of your property and the water drainage spot especially. Are you on a hill or flat? How much property do you have? You might need permission from your county or city to do any water diversions. Obviously water runs down hill so after your pond fills you will choose for it to drain somewhere where it won't bother you or anyone else.
 
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Check out "Monet's Pond" in Japan. Very similar to this situation.
 
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Welcome @Rustysflygirl! Wow, talk about lucky. @j.w asked some good questions. I wonder how will you keep your pond water from ultimately flowing back into the spring? It could be an environmental issue especially if you choose to keep non-native species. Pathogens and non-native fishes (especially their tiny offspring) could flow into the local waterways. You might consider some sort of diverter that allows you to initially fill and periodically top off your pond without a 'flow through' design. That way, nothing gets released. Welcome and we look forward to hearing your plans.
 
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Using a spring if it is a deep one is not a problem generally but you never know you may have the one spring with an issue is would get the water tested before I did anything.

Discharging however as has been mentioned directly to a stream is a potential problem. As like myself I have found fry that have been sucked into a pvc pipe made their way through a pool basket strainer , past the impeller doing 3700 rpm, pushed through 75 feet of pipe dumped below almost 3 feet of gravel and end up swimming and
growing in the bog.
So it is beyond a possibility that fry could end up in a local water way which can land you in some hot water.
 

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