posted 4 years ago
Right? Haha yeah I totally hear you. I am not taking this lightly, just exploring my options...
Not a lot of rain these days in California but when it comes it's often really heavy (join the club...). It's so inconsistent that I don't know how to even estimate it. But I will go overboard with the overflow mitigation. I have a piece of 12" culvert pipe that would reach from the top of the pond down to the bottom of the cut, where there is a drainage ditch already. I just would have to buy another elbow connector. I am more worried about the weight of the water blowing out. If it did fail it would suck but there's nothing all that important in it's path. I have a large surface drain that would take most of it. Still I am not going to build this if it's more than say a 0.8% probability. That's why I am wondering about the width of the "dam" wall.
The soil is heavy clay with an average amount of rocks. Ancient riverbed is what it is.
Oh and thanks for the gutter idea. I actually just started doing that with about 1500 gallons of storage. The problem is that I have to then move most of it back uphill. Between that and the fact that I get zero rain 9 months out of the year is why I want to build this pond.
Don't worry this is all exploratory, I mean I want to do it but I am not going to just do it, if that makes sense.
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