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

Something has been done

this is what it looks like now . And the picture from a few days ago is here


A trench that drains the water into the existing course and the pond and then onwards has dried up a lot of grass.

  So that is a temporary solution. We will need to do something in the longer term . On te other side of the lawn is a ditch - the opinion is that it was dug  to try and control the flow of water down the hill and divert it into the burn.





And i think it has silted up .  That, with all the rain we have had this winter means the grass isnt draining where it was and instead is finding its own way out.  So i think a summer job will be to dig it out a bit .

Bit like the Somerset Levels really .

Water engineering - part3

Having observed what happened with the heavy rain of the last 48 hours, and that bits of the ground are still as wet, and that the drainage channel hasn't filled up , its time to do something different.

So i filled in the channel

 and dug out another one,  but this time along the path the water had been flowing earlier in the week when we had a lot of rain

 so we shall see what happens