re: Pond Update

I am late to this thread but I have a friend in MS who dug his own pond, very similar to OP. Dug it out, built a levee and he installed a pipe system for overflow instead of the spillway method.

His isn't PVC, it's steel(I think), and it's more basic than the image above. It is shaped like a U and the pipe on the dry side of the levee is 90 degrees back up to the sky and is same height as the trash rack/water line. His was obviously installed early in project.

Pond is 10-12 feet deep