Hey Adam, we too have a pond, with a couple of beaver friends... one thing we added was a floating barge, bought it complete from a local lumber store (8x16)... just add an electric motor, some chairs and a pop or two and it's a good time centre... Can't wait to bust it out this year... Enjoy... Pete from Canada 🇨🇦
Civil Engineer here - I'm guessing you don't have great data on each vertical foot to horizontal area, but your pond is not half full. I do pond calcs every day and due to the side slopes the top 4 foot of your pond will hold more water than the bottom 8. If somehow you can get area per depth I can give you the calcs of volume per depth.
Surprised just how much old winter added to the pond. At the start of the video, I thought it was all the weather but never expected the spring to be flowing that hard. Neat analysis of the rate of flow. what a spring you have. Hope the ice and wind didn't do much damage your way. You are about an hour north of me. I have the neighbors pine tree in my field right now I will have to clean up. snapped the top right out of it.
Adam, keep in mind as the weather gets better evaporation will come into play also. All the rain and snow we've had since the first of the year has had to of helped greatly. Of course as you mentioned as the pond fills it takes more gallons to raise each inch, not only because the surface area gets larger, but because you are losing the "funnel effect" of catching rain water.
@@jphickory522 The top of the pool is larger than the bottom, so you're catching rain over a large area but filling the smaller lower area. Think of putting a martini glass vs a straight-sided glass of equal top opening circumference in the rain.....you'll get an inch of rain in the martini glass first because the bottom inch has less volume.
The Pond is a wonderful addition and it keeps on giving with natural beauty it will continuously provide. I think by the end of the summer you’ll have a full pond. ✨💧✨👍👍👍
My Grandparents would let their hogs stay in the pond when they first built it. They said the hogs would seal it naturally by rooting and laying around in it.
It’s amazing how you have changed your landscape so dramatically in a year. I followed bama bass since his small backyard pond. I agree he dropped a penny or two into his pond. Do you have plans on stocking the pond?
We used PondEnviro DB110 to seal ours. I have never found any water below my dam, but mine still was loosing water somehow. I think with the type of leak you have that you will have good results with a leak treatment. Your pond looks great! The DB110 treatment was a little cheaper, but very messy and labor intensive to apply. If you want to check it out, I did a video of our application…. Good luck!
i enjoy mike and mikes you tube as well, yes the 5 acure pond build is awesome. it seems the two part pond seal works. i know people have used it and swear by it. good luck.
June 12 around 8 pm water will begin flowing down your drainppipe. Never underestimate a good rain. I just got done clearing around the pond here on our new farm, at least half of it. I can see it now, anyway.
In addition to the inflow from the spring, there is the rain, as you mentioned, and evaporation from the pond surface. If you want to make a more refined estimate, there is federal government data available on the net difference between the gain from rain and loss from evaporation from surface waters for every region of the country. Western Pennsylvania undoubtably experiences a net gain, but some areas in the arid southwestern regions of the country experience a net loss.
Adam, Next winter when the pond is full you can have a polar bear swim event. I'd get a kick out of seeing you jump in the freezing water lol. Patrick from Pittsburgh
ALL earthen dams leak. The thing you want to avoid is the leak causing soil to be washed out of the dam. The easiest way for you to do this is to get some "filter fabric" from a local paving or excavating contractor. Filter fabric allows the water to go thru, but not the soil. Lay some filter fabric on the wet spot, cover with soil, and seed. The water will still seep out of the dam, but it won't erode the dam.
@@jakebredthauer5100 It probably won't plug the leak. The water is obviously flowing thru the dam and will continue to do so with the filter fabric. But you want to make sure as it flows that it doesn't carry any soil with it. If it does, then after a while there is a chance that the channels thru the soil will get bigger. If that happens then it's a good bet the water will start carrying more soil and bigger particles. Then it becomes a real problem as it starts to eat a hole thru the dam. This is exactly what happened in the Teaton Dam failure in Idaho back in the 70's. Find the videos on You Tube of that disaster. Again as I said, ALL earth fill dams have water flowing thru them. Most of the time it comes out the bottom of the downstream face. Go look at a big earthen dam someplace. You will see a bunch of large rocks at the bottom of the downstream face and a ditch right next to them. The rocks are the top of an engineered filter that is constructed of ever smaller aggregate going into the dam. The water runs thru the stone but it filters out the small particles. And the ditch at the bottom of the dam will always have water in it.
So, I went back and looked at the video, and if you look at 5:01 you will see what looks like soil below the seep that appears to have been washed out of the seep. There also appears to be an indentation at the seep which may indicate a loss of soil. I would put filter fabric on that pretty quick.
Keep in mind that the volume increases as you go higher up. Think of your pond as an inverted cone, the base is small and does not take much to fill. As the water level increases the surface area, and volume increases.
Realize that as the pond fills more pressure will be applied to your leak so keep an eye on it more water there causes more erosion. If you get a big blow out is there a problem of flooding somewhere down stream ?
I won't pretend to be a math wiz, just a simple science teacher here, but the pond is not even half full yet. Despite the pond being 8 feet deep currently, the surface area increases with each additional measure of depth (feet). This means that the volume required for each increase in depth becomes greater. You will notice that it takes longer to see real depth changes as you get closer to it being "full." I would anticipate your pond being full at some point this fall 2022. If your summer temperatures are hot, I would also anticipate a fair amount of evaporation loss, only slowing the filling process. Keep up the projects, stay safe, and it is certainly enjoyable watching the progress you make to your place.
Adam... Maybe time to replace your camera. Whenever there's an exceptionally bright background snow the pond etc there's a strange flashing sensation that I've been thinking was only me. Until my wife said the same thing curious if anyone else sees it cuz it makes my eyeballs crazy! Love the channel keep up the good work.
Your calculations should be roughly correct. Based on earlier comments I've read here, I would say you could have a full pool somewhere in May, early June, providing there's no heatwave helping evaporation, or mishaps. Good on you, mate! Take care & stay safe ;-)
I've noticed in previous videos that you don't have a fan or two sitting on your wood stove in the garage to distribute the heat. Ever thought of getting one?
Rather than watch the gentleman’s video why not give him a call and visit his pond in person. If/as he went thru the trouble of posting everything, he could be a guy like you and be open the talk and show. May be another Dougmeister. Good work!
That stuff is too expensive. Just get some bentonite clay. They sell by the bag. You mix ina bucket and pour in where you guess the leak is. It’s I’ll find and seal the leak. Maybe a better way and how I am doing mine is to put hogs in the empty pond and add a small amount of water so they can pack the bottom for you. Then as the pond fills and they add some organic material to it it will convert to a seal. Gleying the pond is what it’s called.
idk but if you got twice as much going in as is in the pond then you're losing half your water to something.. if its filled half way and should be flowing at 5gal per minute but you test and its 10gal per minute .. then you're losing half your water to something.. absorption or evaporation.. or both.. unless that flow rate just picked up recently.. anyway .. good luck with it..
It may be a little hard to see in the video, but the top of the standpipe is just below the highest point of the dam. Water should start overflowing into the standpipe before it spills over any edge of the pond. If the standpipe is 8" (can't tell for sure) that would be capable of handling about 950 gallons per minute, far more than would ever be entering the pond at any time.
