Our A/C unit is one of the water-cooled heat pump kind, so anytime it is running (heat or A/C) water is shooting out of a pipe outside. This was connected to two sprinkler heads, but we recently had a leak and had to bypass that line, so we now have a 30' PVC pipe running out into our yard. We have to do SOMETHING with it, and to me, letting all that water go to waste seems like such a shame
, so I suggested making some kind of pond and/or fountain setup. My husband was agreeable, but said we would still have to devise some way of handling excess water that would inevitably be there, since the A/C isn't going to go off just because the pond/fountain is full of water.
So does anyone have any good ideas? My initial idea was to dig a hole (maybe 2' deep, 1.5'wide),run the pipe to it, put an elbow on it and have the pipe sticking up above ground, then fill the hole with rock. Then dig out some of the dirt around the hole and fill that with rock too, then put a fountain type head on the pipe and have the water going up and falling into the rock. And put
plants around it of course. But my husband assures me that it would just be a matter of time until it was all rocks and mud under water.
So, I'm open to ideas. Tell me what ya got!
Oh yeah, the water comes from the same well that I fill my pond with, and has no chlorine. I don't know if it picks up anything harmful from inside the A/C, but it has never hurt the grass yet.