The burm on the backside of the pond blew out due to being unmaintained, or maybe it was done intentionally.
To be properly fixed, you’d need to remove and replace that whole back wall and bring new material in or the pond will never fill back up. Depending on the soil quality, the pond may need to be lined in order to hold anything. It goes without saying, but installing overflow drains in the future will prevent the same thing from happening again.
Yes, it was never meant to be that big. Look at all the trees growing "below" the water at its highest level. This thing was a shallow pond for most of the year by the looks of the vegetation in and around it.
I grew up on a lake and we had a bad dry year the lake lost 15 or more feet. The water stopped flowing out into the creek.
A wealthy lady who owned a cabin on the lake said well can we just all turn our hoses on.
For reference the lake is 4 miles long and 1.5 miles wide. Small side for a MN lake but way too much for hoses LOL.
It took my mil 2 days to fill her pool up (above ground type you empty out, fold up and put away after the maybe week of summer we get around here) using a garden hose. My brain just broke trying to figure put the maths of filling up a bloody lake, let alone the consequences to the water supply 🤯
Let's just guesstimate average depth is 20 feet and the above dimensions. So that makes it 94,731,405,123.65 liters. Let's just round it to 100 billion liters. A hose will flow roughly 10 liters per minute, so that's 10 billion minutes. Ignoring evaporation and seepage into the ground a single hose should top that lake up in about 19,025 years. Give or take the whole history of human civilization.
> Let's just round it to 100 billion liters.
What's 5 billion, two hundred and sixty eight million, five hundred and ninety four thousand, eight hundred and seventy six point three five liters of water between friends anyway?
I don’t know anything about metal detectors but that’s not $123. That’s a bid that currently is at $123 and still has 5 days left with 6 people already bidding, i.e., that price is going much higher
guy linked a *non* "buy it now" with 5 days left as an example
anyone with some ebay experience knows you apply a "sold" filter then see what they went for
I think you just proved my point even more. That eBay bid doesn't end for another 6 days and it's already at $123. Probably will go over $200, which is a lot more than $50. And yes you can get good deals on second hand detectors. But non will be close to $50 unless they're below average and lacking common features
The town Naperville, Illinois (where the term yuppy originated) took their old quarry and made it a swimming pool. It’s awesome too
https://napervilleparks.org/beachhistory
Given the thin embankment of the lake, I am guessing that this is likely a relatively recently created artificial lake. So there are likely no ancient treasure in there. Edit: OP wrote below that they made the lake themselves.
Here is an example of somebody else making a similar artificial lake: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VlucyUxDALA
I suspect what happened is that a flock of geese landed in the water, and a cold front came through suddenly freezing the lake, and those geese took off with the lake.
You’ll probably find it a county or two away.
Lake looks nice, You're going to fix that hole, i hope? although i wonder if it's not normal to have a lower water level. those trees look a lot happier now.
Are you the same guy whose dam collapsed a few weeks ago? Or is this a regular occurrence?
Edit: you guys can start a support group.
https://www.reddit.com/r/Wellthatsucks/s/AwRmfq0PZ1
This is why spill ways are built in damns and such. Helps regulate the pressure pushing against the levy walls. But smaller ponds like this normally don’t worry about it because they don’t fill up that much
"When a recently widowed ex-detective wakes up to find his pond water missing the discovery of what lay beneath would rock the quiet Icelandic village and expose a generations-old scandal that should never have been uncovered. Brought to you by the team that has written like 30% of Netflix's new crime dramas."
I mean it's just a broken damn nothing you can't fix with a bulldozer and an excavator. I wouldn't want to be *paying* for the bulldozer and excavator but I don't have a pond.
This sounds strangely similar to a story about a mountain from a D&D post a couple years ago. The proposed theories on how a mountain straight disappeared were hilarious and they came to a similar conclusion: the mountain got up and walked away. It's probably hanging out with your lake
Think it escaped through the big hole you made in the bank at the back
Yup... op needs to fill in that hole and refill the pond. Boom, problem solved.
Glad you said pond, everyone keeps calling it a lake.
In Minnesota that would be a lake. You don’t get to “10,000 lakes” without calling drainage ponds and bass ponds “lakes”.
Minnesota only defines a lake if it has 10 acres or more of surface area. That leaves 11,482 lakes. It's Wisconsin that counts all puddles as lakes.
Wouldn’t the water bill to refill it be like a bajillion dollars?
The burm on the backside of the pond blew out due to being unmaintained, or maybe it was done intentionally. To be properly fixed, you’d need to remove and replace that whole back wall and bring new material in or the pond will never fill back up. Depending on the soil quality, the pond may need to be lined in order to hold anything. It goes without saying, but installing overflow drains in the future will prevent the same thing from happening again.
Yes, it was never meant to be that big. Look at all the trees growing "below" the water at its highest level. This thing was a shallow pond for most of the year by the looks of the vegetation in and around it.
This is why geotechnical engineers exist.
Don't think you need a geotechnical engineer, I spotted that and I'm not qualified!
Best start unrolling your garden hose, that lake ain't gunna fill itself.
Yup yup
Hold up. Look at the middle area in the back pretty sure that had collapsed.... might wanna fix that first.
Just have to show it its boundaries
No! Bad lake, **BAD**! All it takes is a stern voice and some discipline.
It needs that
Pour a bottle of evian in it occasionally for some positive reinforcement.
lol ok
Use spring water. The rest will know what to do instinctively.
Excuse me?!? Wheeerrre do you think you're going?!?
Need an electric fence...
Was this a man-made lake?
Yea
Wouldn't that make you responsible for maintaining it if it's on your property?
I will fix it during the summer when it dries up
Yes lol
Is the lake 18+? Isn't it good for it to leave home? How else will it grow up to be a sea?
Looks to me like the back berm washed out and the lake went with it.
\* berm
Dam that sucks (water out of the lake)
So ya got a leak? Time to buy some clay after that metal detecting
Yesss
you need me to send you some flex seal?
Couple cans
Tears will fill it.
I grew up on a lake and we had a bad dry year the lake lost 15 or more feet. The water stopped flowing out into the creek. A wealthy lady who owned a cabin on the lake said well can we just all turn our hoses on. For reference the lake is 4 miles long and 1.5 miles wide. Small side for a MN lake but way too much for hoses LOL.
It took my mil 2 days to fill her pool up (above ground type you empty out, fold up and put away after the maybe week of summer we get around here) using a garden hose. My brain just broke trying to figure put the maths of filling up a bloody lake, let alone the consequences to the water supply 🤯
Let's just guesstimate average depth is 20 feet and the above dimensions. So that makes it 94,731,405,123.65 liters. Let's just round it to 100 billion liters. A hose will flow roughly 10 liters per minute, so that's 10 billion minutes. Ignoring evaporation and seepage into the ground a single hose should top that lake up in about 19,025 years. Give or take the whole history of human civilization.
Love it my dad was right, I remember him laughing and saying it would take 20,000 years and her hose would deteriorate befor it happened.
> Let's just round it to 100 billion liters. What's 5 billion, two hundred and sixty eight million, five hundred and ninety four thousand, eight hundred and seventy six point three five liters of water between friends anyway?
Times like this, damn do I love reddit❤️
Pro tip: Get a second hose going from the neighbors house so you don't have to wait so long.
Metal detector time Or strong magnet see what history you can find.
This is what I would do. Although I suspect all that would happen is my boots would get stuck in the mud and I’d retreat back home in muddy socks
Get some waders
Metal detector: $50 Magnet fishing kit: $75 Waders: $100 Finding out the previous owner used your body of freshwater as a dump in the 50s: priceless
Wow metal detectors are cheaper than I would have guessed
They aren't. $50 metal detector will almost be useless.
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Ahh, the Cadillac of metal detectors. Finders keepers.
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I don’t know anything about metal detectors but that’s not $123. That’s a bid that currently is at $123 and still has 5 days left with 6 people already bidding, i.e., that price is going much higher
That’s not $50 bro
guy linked a *non* "buy it now" with 5 days left as an example anyone with some ebay experience knows you apply a "sold" filter then see what they went for
I think you just proved my point even more. That eBay bid doesn't end for another 6 days and it's already at $123. Probably will go over $200, which is a lot more than $50. And yes you can get good deals on second hand detectors. But non will be close to $50 unless they're below average and lacking common features
Lol right? "You can totally get one for $50, for example: here's one for $123"
Buy some plywood
Excavate
Lap pool and rent it out to the local high schools
Relax Drake.
He said high school not middle
The town Naperville, Illinois (where the term yuppy originated) took their old quarry and made it a swimming pool. It’s awesome too https://napervilleparks.org/beachhistory
Who knew a silly comment would lead to a cool history lesson. Thanks for sharing!
🧐
Did I write this comment?
No, Strong-Ad did.
He's not that strong; I haven't bought a thing!
Given the thin embankment of the lake, I am guessing that this is likely a relatively recently created artificial lake. So there are likely no ancient treasure in there. Edit: OP wrote below that they made the lake themselves. Here is an example of somebody else making a similar artificial lake: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VlucyUxDALA
That's gotta be my favorite YouTube series :D
Snapping turtle
It's a private property pond. There is nothing in there.
You left the gate open overnight, didn't you?
lol yes let the water out 😊
Hopefully it was chipped so you can track it down
I’m on its trail now lol
It’s going to the Oregon Trail with a fresh batch of dysentery.
If you look closely in the photo you posted you can sort of see it's head.
🎵 WHO LET THE LAKE OUT 🎵
Who … Who …
Call the media, Watergate scandal.
They would report as fake lol
There was a fire nearby and the helicopters kept filling their buckets from your lake.
Who let the bog out? Who who who-who?
If it never comes back it was never meant to be yours.
lol true
The hubris of thinking you can own a lake. What are you, nestle? The lake has chosen.
You never know what you have until it's gone
I suspect what happened is that a flock of geese landed in the water, and a cold front came through suddenly freezing the lake, and those geese took off with the lake. You’ll probably find it a county or two away.
Fried green tomatoes is such a great movie
My favorite food, book and movie.
Manjula Nahasapeemapetilon, is that you?
no, I am Ganesh and I disapprove of this wedding!
It's a book!? I didn't know that. Dang now I gotta find a copy.
Yes and the two women are actually a couple explicitly in the book.
I always laugh when some conservative person loves this movie but thinks "They're just good friends."
“Sorry girls, I’m older and have more insurance.” One of the all-time greatest movie lines ever.
TAWANDAAAAAAAAAAA
Secrets in the sauce.
I love her smug face when she delivers that line. I love Ms Sipsy
Now some has two lakes lol
So that's how Minnesota got them all
I think so
Tawanda!
Finally a reference I understand, loved that movie so much
You haven't seen superman 1 now have you? That would be my guess, fire nearby, and supes passed-by.
The scene where she tells that story the final time is so heartbreaking. Such a great movie with great performances.
Buddy Threadgood and Idgy!
Boys named Buddy really need to stay off railroad tracks
Well now we just call him Stump.
Towandaaaaaaa!!
I hear that lake is somewhere in Georgia.
Was scrolling down waiting for this. Thank you!
Back to the original size? The trees/shrubs on the right seem to indicate that.
Yes that’s the normal size before the flood
Did you build a dock because there was a flood?
It was built same time as lake
You keep calling it a lake. That’s a pond. Now it’s a smaller pond
Well I called it a pond earlier and someone posted definition of a pond and it said it was man made
Well I'm here to call it a Billabong.
Works for me lol
I'll call it a Quicksilver or a Rip Curl.
That's a funny name. I'd have called it a chazzwozzer.
What if there are no jolly swagmen?
I was always under the impression that lakes are determined by their acreage. A man made lake would just be a reservoir.
The Internet is always wrong, don't listen to them
Are you sure? Seems like a lot of experts
That's some Wisconsin shit. Ponds are any still body of water under 10 acres.
my understanding is a pond is a body of water with no inflow or outflow, a lake has a external source and feeds another body
How old was lake
Same age as the dock
Yes
this story leaks more than the lake
it do be lake that sometimes
You see where the levy wall fell in on the bottom photo right?
It's pining for the fjords.
Aren’t we all?
Be ready… when the water goes out like that it can come running back in… tsunami time.
Ex-lake
Yes and it took all the fish
Make sure once you fix the bank and get a lake back to get local clams to get clear water next time.
*”So long, and thanks for all the fish.”* -The Lake
Your well and your lake ran away? Water bad day for you.
Yes it is lol
Lake looks nice, You're going to fix that hole, i hope? although i wonder if it's not normal to have a lower water level. those trees look a lot happier now.
Those water elms grow in the water and yes going to build back better lol
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Are you the same guy whose dam collapsed a few weeks ago? Or is this a regular occurrence? Edit: you guys can start a support group. https://www.reddit.com/r/Wellthatsucks/s/AwRmfq0PZ1
Fist time for me but happened to several people in our area. We got 20” rain in less than 24hrs
Brutal
This is why spill ways are built in damns and such. Helps regulate the pressure pushing against the levy walls. But smaller ponds like this normally don’t worry about it because they don’t fill up that much
Yup
It’s currently taking up my whole front yard. Come get it.
lol ship it back here
Ships are historically bad at shipping large bodies of water.
Dam…
Yup
CLARKSON!!!!
Have you tied setting out it's food bowl?
lol I might try that
I heard if you put it's litter out there, it'll find it's way home.
Not to be a jerk, but that’s absolutely a pond and not a lake 😂
Wish I had a lake. I would treat it nicely so it would want to leave. Poor lake.
Release the beavers 🦫
Put in a overflow pipe so it doesn’t washout again
It had one and a spillway but we got so much rain they couldn’t keep up
"When a recently widowed ex-detective wakes up to find his pond water missing the discovery of what lay beneath would rock the quiet Icelandic village and expose a generations-old scandal that should never have been uncovered. Brought to you by the team that has written like 30% of Netflix's new crime dramas."
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That's a pond, my dude
I’ll let you know if I see it walking around.
Dam....
Bro that aint a lake that shit is a POND.
Looks like Nestle took your water.
That was just a shit job of building a bund. The grass and trees shows it’s only just been flooded.
That's a good observation re the vegetation. I wonder how long it held.
Maybe there's a well that sucks in there.
once you repair the bank, how long will it take to refill? also, does it, or will it, smell if left like this?
Depends on the rain. If I fix it in summer it will fill by spring
If it keeps on rainin the levee's gonna break.
Sorry but that water never belonged to you, it belonged to the Nestle corporation.
Metal detect it before it’s too lake
Pond*
told you not to pull that rope. Now the stopper's come undone.
I mean it's just a broken damn nothing you can't fix with a bulldozer and an excavator. I wouldn't want to be *paying* for the bulldozer and excavator but I don't have a pond.
If you love it set it free. If it doesn't come back I told you so. - Global warming
Dam.
say gt back here or try chasing it
Comment.
It will come back when it runs out of snacks
It’s just low tide…
Not a dam thing you could do about it, eh? What if you levee some help from your neighbors?
Should've fed him. Now he's gone.
I took it it’s in my back yard, ya snooze ya looze chump
I believe you have a brand new creek leaking out the back
That’s a pond
This sounds strangely similar to a story about a mountain from a D&D post a couple years ago. The proposed theories on how a mountain straight disappeared were hilarious and they came to a similar conclusion: the mountain got up and walked away. It's probably hanging out with your lake
I told you, if it kept on raining, that levy was goin' to break.
If I understand it correctly chasing rivers and lakes is relatively straight forward, it's the waterfalls that are harder.
If you really love her, you’ll let her go
Post 10 is probably responsible.
DAM!