Our magic pond
The picture of our pond above is a bit blurred. It was pouring with rain and we didn’t want to get wet, so we shot it from upstairs in bad light with a 280 mm lens!
It shows something we have never seen before, ever. The pipe in the middle of our pond is supposed to be the overflow for when the pond fills to the top. It feeds an underground pipe which flows downhill. As it’s been hot recently, the pond was down quite a bit from the maximum. However, as you can see water is backing up the pipe, although the level in the pond is still about 10-15 cm below the pipe. Of course, in the mean time, the pond has filled completely and is not draining via the pipe…
Weird. We suspect that one of the neighbours downstream has made some changes and water is backing up the pipe, although we can’t imagine what could cause the effect you can see. We are pretty sure the pipe only goes downstream, as we had a camera put down it last time it got blocked to check out what the cause of the blockage was.
Does any of our readers have any idea how we can find out what is going on? I doubt we can start poking around in other people’s back-gardens looking for recent changes!