dodge man
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In your picture it looks like you left your blue shop vac out. 
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We are at Table Rock lake this weekend in south Missouri. I found where the rain has been going. In all of our trips here this is the highest I have seen it. Have to wade knee deep to get to our slip. Launching and retrieving the boat from the parking lot.
Couple of updates. I've only been able to get one good water loss reading from May 27th 4:30pm to yesterday 3:15 pm. So close enough to call it 6 full days. Over those 6 days I lost exactly a 1/2". Assuming some loss into soil absorption since we had just gained 9" of water at the reading on the 27th and some loss to evaporation I think that looks promising at 0.083" of loss per day.
The really heavy runoff rain continues to miss us but we did get another 1.5" from yesterday evening through this evening. The yardstick is gone and had 9" remaining above water before this rain. Will have to get another yardstick in. Water has pushed up to the 1st stump now and into the banks on 3 sides. Also starting to get rutting from the rain in a few spots close to my bentonite layer. I will probably drag what I can with the tractor rake to fill those in and re-pack so I don't wash out the bentonite.
The really heavy runoff rain continues to miss us but we did get another 1.5" from yesterday evening through this evening. The yardstick is gone and had 9" remaining above water before this rain. Will have to get another yardstick in. Water has pushed up to the 1st stump now and into the banks on 3 sides. Also starting to get rutting from the rain in a few spots close to my bentonite layer. I will probably drag what I can with the tractor rake to fill those in and re-pack so I don't wash out the bentonite.
EddieWalker
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Thanks for the update. We've been getting rain every couple of days here and it seems to be scheduled to happen again next week. Hopefully it will happen there before summer kicks in and dries everything out.
Finally caught a decent storm this morning. 3.25" in the rain gauge. Until now we had only recoeved 1 rain event over an inch this year at 1.25". Everything else has been less than an inch. I will know real quick now if the pond is going to be viable. So far it's been holding between the small rains.
Yesterday to today
Yesterday to today
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How many tons of bentonite did you use? It may have been said already and I just missed it. Also, where did you get it at?
15 tons. That was the most they could ship in one truckload. I ended up using Lone Star materials. Even with freight they were by far the cheapest I could find
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Thanks! That's who I have been looking at for it.15 tons. That was the most they could ship in one truckload. I ended up using Lone Star materials. Even with freight they were by far the cheapest I could find
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EddieWalker
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You'll be getting the mower stuck trying to mow as close to the water as possible in no time at all!!!! At least that's what happens where I live.
I should know in a week if it's going to hold. At this level before the rework water loss was pretty rapid.
For the first time I am feeling pretty optimistic that I have fixed the leaks in the pond. It may be end of the year or even into next before it completely fills but water loss is looking good. Plugging surface area, temps, humidity and some wind into some formulas I'm getting estimates of around 0.2 to 0.25 inch per day loss to evaporation. Over the last 5+ days, 128 hours I've lost 1 inch and averaging a loss of 0.1875 per day.
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The yardstick makes it easy to see what's happening. I found a yellow plastic one that lasted for quite a while for my pond. The wood one sort of dissolved into the pond.
When my pond was full, I put the yardstick in upside down, so it was easy to see what I had lost. The top of the yardstick was right at the surface when full, then when it was down an inch, I would see one inch sticking up from the water. Most summers I will lose two feet of water, but in a really bad summer it was down 8 feet!!!
When my pond was full, I put the yardstick in upside down, so it was easy to see what I had lost. The top of the yardstick was right at the surface when full, then when it was down an inch, I would see one inch sticking up from the water. Most summers I will lose two feet of water, but in a really bad summer it was down 8 feet!!!
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That (8ft) was an awful long yard stick. Jon
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That summer we went over 100 days without rain, and temps over 100 degrees. My other pond dried up and I lost over 60 catfish that were all over ten pounds. They died at the same time, when the water was just a foot or two deep. I guess they cooked, or there wasn't enough oxygen for them anymore. The number of vultures was more than I could count!!! My big pond still had enough water in it for the fish to survive, but I was getting nervous.
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Woo-hoo!
Congratulations!
All the best, Peter
Congratulations!
All the best, Peter
