Building a pond on a swale.

This week’s pond was built on a swale, a natural part of the yard for rainwater to run.  Because it is never a good idea to have  rainwater runoff introduced into a pond on a consistent basis, we had to build a sort of rain collector right before the pond.  This allowed the pond to be in the path of the swale without the runoff coming into the pond. 

Right before the pond we built a stone/rock garden which actually had a drain underneath of it.  It took the runoff under the pond and out the other side to another rock garden.  No one is the wiser.  With  the massive amounts of rain that we received this week it was paramount that we get this system up and running prior to installing the pond.  It worked like a charm.

I would have pictures but it does not do it justice in the pictures plus it was pouring when we left.