Following the driest July since we’ve been here, we had the wettest August. We’ve been rained in for several days, and last night we had a 2.5″ hard rain. The sound of the river (1.5 miles away) and all the arroyos running was deafening.
This morning, when we went to assess the damage, we found the pond full. The last time this happened, it broke the dam, so, as you can imagine, we were a little nervous. But everything was fine. The overflow worked great, even given the volume of water it must have had to handle. In fact the “pig pond” even filled up (it is filled from the overflow of the big one).
Here’s a few photos of the ponds, empty and full to see the scale.
Empty
Full
Empty
Full
We have actually done a little work to the overflow. We used a water level to measure the height of the dam against the overflow, and decided it would be safer to dig it down a couple of feet. It probably would have been OK, but we’re still glad we did it!
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