06/24/15, 10:07 PM
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Born in the wrong Century
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Join Date: Jan 2009
Location: Michigan
Posts: 5,067
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Originally Posted by rambler
Reading through this....
You have a pond that was small, was then converted to larger by digging and piling more. (That kinda is risky, not designed right for the flows and stresses....)
You have a bad exit pipe, fixed, and went bad in a year again. (That's a bad design, those pipe need to be anchored right, packed in right, have a stop ring around them to preven water soaking along the outsides of the. And washing out. Takes a person who knows what they are doing, not a guy with a backhoe...)
You have a livestock, which if uphill will foul your water on their own.
You have an intermittent flow to feed this pond, which is just problematic all around. Stuff builds up on the surrounding terrain, and then is all flushed into your pond quickly in a rainfall, but the water stops running before it flushes the junk through. Really a tough deal. This is hard to get past. More or less without constant flow, this is just a deal killer. (The off and on flow also is tough on your exit pipe, as the dirt is gonna swell and shrink around it, why you are having leaks and failures of the pipe....)
I believe barley straw is the correct one to help with scummy ponds, not rye or other - use barley straw if you want to try this.
If you have some room to the upstream side, a cattail rush type of wetlands could filter some nutrients and silt, but with your on/off flow, its going to be a difficult thing to make worthwhile, and likely will take up more room that you are willing or can afford to lose. It would be a prefix ter to trap and use the nutrient load, but you have a tough set of issues there to make it work.
You have a tough deal there.
Paul
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Careful with that cattail thing, EPA can step in and call it a wetland,as well as your own state environmental Agency.
No Joke...
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