Best way to connect water drainages to pond.

[exiled]

THe area around my pond is just about the highest point on my land. All my drainages are at least 4' lower. I have rain run off of roughly 1000 acres running straight thru my place. Last year my pond got as low as the drainages durning the drought and this year it got about 3' low. I'm really hating to see all that water pass me by. I cant figure out how to connect a water source that is running lower the catch if that makes sense.
I have thought about building another pond on the other end of the land and just cut the drainage with the pond. Is this a bad idea? Only bad thing I could come up with is that moving water will keep branging dirt and trash into the pond.

 

[Kfbeal]

What about building a levee or somewhat of a dam to force the water towards your pond? Is the land where the run off is coming from lower than your pond also?

 

[exiled]

What about building a levee or somewhat of a dam to force the water towards your pond? Is the land where the run off is coming from lower than your pond also?

I'm thinking a levee whould just hurt more than it would help. I still have to bushhog and cut hay on this land.
I have 2 drainages running thru my land. The one that is closest to my pond is feed by land that is higher than my pond. The drainage thats on the other side of my land is feed by land that is higher than my land but lower than my pond if that makes sense.

 

[cmhyland]

How about a couple of solar panels, deep cycle marine batteries, an inverter and a pump.

Catch the water and pump it up.... It wouldn't be cheap but it would work....

Regards,
Chris

 

[cmhyland]

Those old style windmills through the west pumped water... I bet you could build one of those....

Regards,
Chris

 

[ToadHill]

My lower pond drains about 7 acres and the upper pond handles almost 45 acres. I planted grass in all the sluseways and before they exit into each pond I dug a "holding pond about 3ft deep and about 10' by 6' that filters out the silt. I have to clean them out every now and then, but the bucket loader makes short work of it.

 

[Kfbeal]

My lower pond drains about 7 acres and the upper pond handles almost 45 acres. I planted grass in all the sluseways and before they exit into each pond I dug a "holding pond about 3ft deep and about 10' by 6' that filters out the silt. I have to clean them out every now and then, but the bucket loader makes short work of it.

That was going to be my next response. Either a levee or ditch cut to a smaller hole to filter, then run-off to the big pond.

 

[radioman]

how about a ram pump ?

 

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Sorry guys things just went sour the past few days. I thought I was caught up so I could spend some time on the boards. But the honey do list juast would'nt end. A friend at work needed time off I had to cover for him, yall get the picture.
Thanks for the suggestions. I dont know what a ram pump is. Man I love goggle. I came up with an idea yesterday{all by myself I might add}. I thought of putting some poly tanks in the ground and pumping the water into the poly tanks. As this idea started brewing in my mind, things started taking shape. Like having a 3 stage above ground processing unit on both ends of the under ground storage. Some like have the water pumped into a catch bin then passed through a filtering bin then down into the underground storage. Then have waterers in my different crossed fenced pasters and the underground storage supplies them. It would be nice if I could install some type auto refill for the waterers so it would fill by it self. My only concern here is the hot summer using up more water than nature could pervide then I would be forced to transport water to the waters. I think this system is very doable any body see anything like it. What was its problems if any?