pond leak - does this make sense?
I have a 2500 gallon pond, cement with liner, and woke up the other morning
to find that half the water was gone! I found a small hairline crack along the smaller waterfall - perhaps a foot long. The water flows over the crack; the crack is not submerged. I patched it and everything seems fine. Does this make sense that this was the problem? 1200 gallons down in 12 hours? It was raining hard that night so I could not tell if it was wet in one area or another. I had this problem before but I would lose maybe 2 inches a day, not a foot and a half of water in a night. Also, now that I am paranoid, I had this idea for how to stop the pump if the water drops. I have a 1/5" intake tube that goes to the bottom of the pond. If I put a T coupling on it a couple of feet from the bottom, if the pond ever dropped lower than that would I not lose prime and suction - hence, causing the pump to stop pumping the pond dry? Gary |
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