Mother nature threw at us last night for the first time this year below ZERO temps we woke up to negative 3 degrees. Seeing as it was 40 degrees all week with a slight drop still above freezing. Well this morning while walking out to the pond i got a unpleasant surprise. The water in the pond is 8" low after seeing that at some point during the night the water level had actually gone up about two inches in the main pond and a good four inches in the stream and upper pond.
Well i am now at the mercy of mother nature. I have the hose pushing water into the pond and all i can do at this point is hope the hose can stay ahead of the leak/ overflow.
The new main waterfall has frozen on half of the original width and is now coming down the right side only. i brought the liner well outside the area of the ice . you can see some of it to the right of the picture below. Same goes for the left side as the large flat rock is never underwater but the liner runs well outside of the picture. The WEAK LINK is the stream and upper pond where i have a couple edges at 2" above the normal water line.
The negative edge " below" is completely frozen but that is probably after the cistern emptied trying to refill the pond.
The upper pond and the stream are clearly about 3" higher than they ever are and is where I believe water is getting out. The main waterfall is still flowing but hobitt falls is a block of ice.
Thankfully i added water to the cistern yesterday for the second time since the new bog was built but as you can see the water has droped about 8"
This winter i guess i was lucky . we had temps drop below freezing and stay there but it got just to freezing and not below zero. it's so cold that the water can't keep and open path below the ice lesson learned , I only hope it doesn't become an expensive lesson as well. I will probably leave the hose running all night in hopes to salvage this bad scenario.
Yes I could shut down the pump however i can not get the lid off to drain down the water. i can't shut any valves as they too are frozen. The main drain is supplying the the pump water while the two return jets tot he pond " no concerns there" and the 3" line to the bog is my problem as the water is backing up between the falls streams and upper pond.
Going to drape some plastic over the pump area and get some heat in there and see it that allows me to shut things down.
best i can do is break up some of the ice , cover the falls with a sheet of AZEK closing it in as much as possible to keep the area from the frigged temps.
Well i am now at the mercy of mother nature. I have the hose pushing water into the pond and all i can do at this point is hope the hose can stay ahead of the leak/ overflow.
The new main waterfall has frozen on half of the original width and is now coming down the right side only. i brought the liner well outside the area of the ice . you can see some of it to the right of the picture below. Same goes for the left side as the large flat rock is never underwater but the liner runs well outside of the picture. The WEAK LINK is the stream and upper pond where i have a couple edges at 2" above the normal water line.
The upper pond and the stream are clearly about 3" higher than they ever are and is where I believe water is getting out. The main waterfall is still flowing but hobitt falls is a block of ice.
Thankfully i added water to the cistern yesterday for the second time since the new bog was built but as you can see the water has droped about 8"
This winter i guess i was lucky . we had temps drop below freezing and stay there but it got just to freezing and not below zero. it's so cold that the water can't keep and open path below the ice lesson learned , I only hope it doesn't become an expensive lesson as well. I will probably leave the hose running all night in hopes to salvage this bad scenario.
Yes I could shut down the pump however i can not get the lid off to drain down the water. i can't shut any valves as they too are frozen. The main drain is supplying the the pump water while the two return jets tot he pond " no concerns there" and the 3" line to the bog is my problem as the water is backing up between the falls streams and upper pond.
Going to drape some plastic over the pump area and get some heat in there and see it that allows me to shut things down.
best i can do is break up some of the ice , cover the falls with a sheet of AZEK closing it in as much as possible to keep the area from the frigged temps.
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