The great flood

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We've had so much rain the last few days that the pond behind our yard is at an all-time high! At least we've never seen it this full the whole time we've lived here...and we've seen it get pretty high! We're wondering if perhaps the drainage system is clogged up, and so I'll wait and see how it is tomorrow and if there's no sign of drainage, I'll probably start checking to see who needs to be called about getting it un-clogged.

This first picture here, if you look real close, shows the white pipes that run under the yard from the gutters on the house (those I haven't hijacked for rain barrels). While I was out in the garden I could hear a very slight trickle of water - even though it's not still raining, there's still some seepage going on. It's just that the pond isn't usually up so close to the drainage pipes that they flow right out into the water...

Image by jephremley via Flickr

This isn't a natural pond - it's a pond that was dug out to handle drainage in the neighbor (so, yes, it makes you wonder about the quality of the water, what with all the lawn chemical run off, etc...). Normally it seems to remain at a fairly constant depth, but on rare occasion after heavy storms it's filled up extra, and then slowly drains off over the next few days. There's an outflow system at the back of the ponds that drains off to...well, I don't know where. A sewer system? A stream? I don't know. But with all the flooding around here lately, the outflow's either clogged, or not keeping up.