New Pond Build

[Neo]

We had almost 20 inches of rain in two days! It usually happens at least once a year in spring here but while it was pouring I noticed that a lot of the water was rushing in from behind my yard and flowing to the pond.

Ugh is right, I hate caved in walls! Thank goodness my soil is heavy clay so not to much moving, but I did fix the top side of wall on part my bottom pond a couple weeks ago, water seeped there from overflow and caused side to move. If you have enough liner left that was not cut away, try making an overflow spillway to carry the excess water from pond well away from pond foundation, like a dried creek that overflows during heavy rain....

I spent the better part of yesterday building a retaining wall to divert the water flow away from my pond. Now I will work on a trench for overflow and hopefully this solves everything. As much as I love building ponds this one has been a pain in the butt lol, I just want to sit, relax, and enjoy it...

 

[callingcolleen1]

That is a lot of rain! I saw the big storms and tornatos on TV, did the tornato storms come close to you? I would be scared to have big storms like that. Did you have to hide in the basement?

 

[Neo]

We had two tornadoes miss us by 10 miles. After the next town over literally got wiped out by a tornado about 5 years ago I invested in a storm cellar and I have definitely never regretted it! Especially after Joplin MO got that F5 two years ago also, we live right outside Joplin on the state line. I think I've used the cellar more in the past two weeks than all other 4 years that I've had it though.

We spent most of thursday night and Friday night in it. I hate it down there also (hot and claustrophobic! lol) but at least I know We're safe.

 

[callingcolleen1]

Sounds like very scary weather down there these days, good thing you have shelter from storms...

 

[Neo]

Video made after the wall collapse. I still have some work to do building it back up but it's getting there.

 

[Neo]

Don't know why the video doesn't show up but the link still works... :banghead3:

 

[Neo]

Just made a quick video of the pond. I finally got the water clear and tests are good. I still have to hide/fix the wall, you can see liner on the right side but I am going to wait to make sure heavy rains are finished for awhile.

If you look to the bottom left side of the pond @ 30 seconds you can see my new Koi that just came out of quarantine to swim with the big boys!

Thank You koiguy1969 for the video help!

 

[addy1]

very nice

 

[Neo]

very nice

Thanks!

I put this together last week to hold extra plants, I also put some hyacinths with eggs on the roots in and already see a few little fish in there!

 

[CometKeith]

Nice pond and fish. Everything is looking great!

 

[callingcolleen1]

Sweet little pond!

 

[Neo]

I took a quick video of the pond today. I think I'm going to have to start feeding some of the hyacinths to the fish finally. Water is still clear and testing about perfect!