I have now changed my plan back to my original idea, of having a separate
pond for my veggie filter. This will result in a small stream which I like,
but I am concerned that my 2 or 5 year old will have fun building a damn one
day, and cause my pond to empty. My thought was to bury an outflow pipe form
the filter to the pond and have the stream on top of this pipe. This would
allow some water to flow thru the stream for effect, but will allow much of
the water to move thru the pipe in case of a dam?

Any thoughts?

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How about sending all the water down the stream and simply provide an overflow
pipe just in case your little engineer builds his/her dam?

~ Gary

That was my thinking also. Put a stand pipe (like overflow in toilet) in
the
vegi filter pond. Leave it a bit long and cut it off at the water line.
Have
the other end exit into the main pond. Heck you could even get fancy
and use it to skim the VF...

Howard

"GACinMass" wrote in message
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How about sending all the water down the stream and simply provide an
overflow
pipe just in case your little engineer builds his/her dam?

~ Gary

"Howard" (remove XYZ) wrote in message
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That was my thinking also. Put a stand pipe (like overflow in toilet) in
the
vegi filter pond. Leave it a bit long and cut it off at the water line.
Have
the other end exit into the main pond. Heck you could even get fancy
and use it to skim the VF...

Howard

"GACinMass" wrote in message
...
How about sending all the water down the stream and simply provide an
overflow
pipe just in case your little engineer builds his/her dam?

~ Gary


So you guys mean, the main water flows down the stream.

In addition to that I have a pipe, that under normal water levels, does not
receive any input, but if the water were to rise in the veggie filter, it
would rise to this pipe, and empty into it, which in turn would dump into
the main pond? Kinda like that hole near the rim of a sink?

BV.

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Kinda like that hole near the rim of a sink?

BV.