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Pond survey camera suggestions?

Started Jul 18, 2020 | Discussions thread
kelpdiver Veteran Member • Posts: 5,564
Re: Pond survey camera suggestions?

how will you identify the leak even if you do have that video streaming to the surface working?   Are you hoping for an obvious liner tear?   As you describe trees on bottom, I'm wondering if there is a lot of decomposing plant matter along the bottom.

How quickly has the water dropped?   Is it fast enough to produce water flow?   If so, could introduce dye or similar trackable neutral objects into the water and then see where it goes.   Perhaps even stirring up the sediment would still do it.  Probably only would work in the near vicinity of the leak, but would still narrow the number of trials needed.

If viz is only a few feet, it may be hard to do without a diver, or until you're getting down to ~5 ft of depth and can do standing.   Clearing out the debris seems called for, unless that is part of desired fish habitat.

Different notion, depending on budget-  there have been a handful of UW drones released in the past couples years.   Some are run from the surface with a line for control and video.   This may be in the 1-2000 range.   Perhaps rentable?   I still see challenges in finding the culprit, but all camera solutions have this problem.

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