satellite dish pond

I hope I'm posting this in the right forum. I don't see a forum for ponds. We just bought a 28 acre farm in northern Michigan. Twenty acres are in woods and 8 acres are cleared around the house. There is a sump pump in the basement that regularly pumps a lot of water outside. The former owners have it hooked up to these rather ugly pipes that are a few feet off the ground and pumps the water out away from the house. The water falls from the pipe into a big metal can and then flows down a ditch down to a bigger drainage ditch out by the road. Where the water falls down into this can the overflow has created a good sized round depression or hole in the ground. I should take pictures I guess so you can get a better visual of what I'm describing. Next trip up I will.

While exploring some of the out buildings I found one of those old huge sattelite dishes in the barn. Someone mentioned to me that you can make a pond out of these dishes. I was wondering if I could somehow put this dish at the bottom of this sump pump flow pipe and make sort of a pond area out of it and decorate it with some rocks and plants etc. The other problem is how to camoflage the ugly pipe. I'm not sure if I could bury it in the ground or not.

I'd like to make a rather ugly but necessary situation into a visually more appealing sight. I have the idea of lining the ditch with small rocks all the way down to the road.

Any suggestions or links would be most appreciated.


Thank you.

Brenda