Water Gardening: Do you have or recommend a BOTTOM DRAIN in your pond?, 1 by fredrump

fredrump wrote:
I will keep Mc Arthur in mind as they are in FL now.

Looking through my pictures, I seem to have missed a moment when they put in the bottom drains. One moment I had steel rods, the next two pipes stuck up out of the ground. I suspect they ran a 90 at one end and a T for the other with one 2" pipe connecting both. Or maybe not. The picture shows sort of a trench towards the far and of the photo. The skimmer is over there on the left and they must have tied the bottom drain to that line. This opens up a whole new picture for me as digging over there is not as problematic as digging yo my driveway on the (near) other side.

A concrete saw should go right through that stuff.

What about if I do two separate 3" drains out from under the pond? They would still come together somehow into one 3" anyway but I could build a valve box of some kind to shut one or the other off. What do you guys think?

I'm thinking a 4 incher will be tough to bend and work with and the suction is on a 3" pipe anyway. Or I could buy two 4" drains each with an air pipe and each running into a reducer and 3" with valves on the other side of the wall.

Here is what I saw after the fact.

Fred