"brickled" wrote in message
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i have a 1 acre pond, around 10-12 ft deep at its deepest point. i want to
drop a 5/8" garden hose into it, start a siphon (got plenty of downhill to
work with) and drain this pond down to around 5 ft. has anyone out there
attempted such a feat and if so, how did it go? if a single hose won't do
it, i'm thinking of adding a 2nd and then a 3rd, etc until i get adequate
volume going out. obviously, i'd like to do it w/ less hoses if possible.


Hi,
First you may need a permit to do this. Second to drop this five feet you
are talking approximately 1 1/2 million gallons. Set up a hose, start the
siphon and time it filling a 5 gallon bucket. Then do the math. If you can
get 25 gallons per minute you're looking at over 45 days IF the hose does
not get blocked or as someone else said it does not rain. Another thing to
consider is how is this pond's level currently maintained, I.E. spring,
stream, runoff as this will have to be factored in.
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