ADVICE OF BOREHOLES FOR WATER

[DIDO.1 22,195]

There are companies that will dig it for free, they keep the soil that comes out, dont know much about it only seen them advertise. Is there no where with a stream running nearby that you could run into it? You will already of thought of that im sure but all our ponds we dig are on the edge of a moor so we can run a stream to em quite easy.

[jasper65 6]

hi all , i am after some advice on boreholes for water , me and a friend have just got planning permission to dig a pond... the only problem is we have no where to draw the water from to fill the pond , it will fill up naturally from rain fall but through the summer it will fall below the water mark in the ground ,now we want to put fish the pond but this is a NO, NO if we cannot keep the water level up through the summer ...

 

now there are other ponds within a mile range of where we will be digging ours...... they draw water from a local river... but it is to far for us to pump water from and we would not get a water extraction licence ... now the land is silty but does hold water ....

 

so now comes the question..... boreholes for water ,would it be possible to draw a massive amount of water from one of these to keep a 2 acre pond topped up through the summer and also fill it when dug , would we need a licence to do this ? would we be able to have a borehole with the land being grade a silt land ...? what would the cost be ....

 

any advice or help would be most appreciated ...

 

 

just to ad we have looked into having it clay lined but it would be to expensive for us .....

 

I'll Have a word with Timmy WAG! he's dug one on a 6 acre site at the back of his land. Its not as big as your plans but his looks the business now its been standing for about 8 years! got a good few carp in there now too.

 

In the aerial picture you can just about see the pond dug out on the left plus a couple of Carp the lads caught a few years back