Why I want to build a pond -- flooding | General Homesteading Discussion | Forums

So we built our place near a small creek. While we were building for 2.5 years it never flooded, or looked like it was going to flood.

So we build and now move out to our house and it has flooded our meadow twice All of our offgrid utilities are safe and are septic field is on higher ground so it is working fine but going out to the solar barn, filling up the generator, etc. is a pain. It also snowed last night so that makes it even more fun.

I don't know how to go about it but I need to cut new and widen some existing channels for the creek water so it has somewhere to go. I also want to add some fill to the meadow and bring it up in height and make it flat -- it is sort of naturally bumpy now. It is basically flat out here so once water comes on the meadow it won't drain away by itself.

Hard to tell but in some places water is over 16" deep, some places deeper.