Too much water!

[Ronfire]

I made a low spot in the liner to keep the water level set, the auto fill keeps it 1/2" below that level.

 

[Lisak1]

Full disclosure - sometimes even when you DO plan for overflow, Mother Nature laughs in your face.

This is the 3rd time this has happened in a week - we're up to almost 8 inches of rain. And when it comes down, it's hard and fast. The rain exchange is full (1000 gallons underground), the pond is full, and the drain is overwhelmed. It''ll take a few hours for the drain to catch up. We have the sump pump pumping into the rain exchange but when we get these flooding rains, we divert that down the storm sewer. Always makes us wish we had made the basin 2 or 3 times bigger!

 

[addy1]

I am in good shape for excess water it just runs down our hill from the ponds heading for the woods.

 

[EricV]

Most skimmers will have an overflow outlet in them that sets the maximum water height. Is yours blocked? You can connect a pipe to that outlet to direct the excess water where you want it (away from a house, down a slope, etc).

 

[j.w]

If my pond overflows it just runs out between the lowest area between the cracks of the rocks. Rocks are up on a berm sitting on the liner so it all runs downhill and good to go.