>>1844981I wasn't very clear so here's a quick picture. The cumulative rainwater of a several square mile area funnels into a drainage path that cuts across the edge of my property. Like, this shit goes from bone dry to 5-6ft deep rapidly running water in a ditch along the red line. Pond #1 was built by the previous owner back in the 70s to try and slow the water down to control erosion. The pond's overflow pipe isn't large enough to handle the water volume it recieves and every single rainfall causes some water to run out of the spillway across my pasture. I don't know if it was intentional to fork the water flow or if they just underestimated the water shed. The spillway flow just follows the lowest path right back to the ditch, and was causing erosion problems. My plan is a pond in the circled blue area. That pond's spillway will lead into a shallow ditch the dozer man will cut down to the tiny #3 pond, which will itself overflow along a spill path back into the ditch. You can see the #4 pond to the top right, is actually the oldest pond on the property, it catches drainage from the north and overflows into the #3 pond as well. The amount of water that comes across my property is insane, but I live in the red river bottom so it's just a part of life.
It's going to be about 10 feet deep at the lowest point, and if next year's rainy season is anything like this year it'll be full in a single year.
