Renovating the pond part 1

Last summer the pond sprung a leak . a bit of patching didnt fix it , and it really looks a bit pathetic.

So the job over the summer is to do something about it.

The water takes a fairly tortuous route to the pond. It runs across the drive

This appeared sometime in 2014 , because its visible here .
It runs across the drive , and then into a pipe

And it  runs down the garden and under a wall

then under a path

and intothe pond.

So diverting the water is easy .

Just a matter of cutting back some (dead) trees

Before 

After 

And making a channel  for the water

Hopefully the pond will empty gradually and then we can see what needs doing

Not the Somerset Levels

A wet hen

But we have had quite a lot of rain, and there are bits of fields under standing water  and there is  a lot of mud around.  And the water that falls has to find its way down to the Bay.

The engineering for the new pond has been successful  - too successful in fact because there is a little stream running out from the pond .

 

 And then the water runs down through the small field. Its good job we moved the hen- house - if we hadn't it would now be in the middle of a  little stream .
  And then the water runs down through the field . We have the burn , but the water is finding its own way to the Bay - we have another ad-hoc  burn .

Looking down the hill as the water winds its way down towards the burn.

And back up the hill

and a bit lower down

But we do also have  quite a lot of standing water around the place . And i haven't taken any more pictures of mud