Yup -- my neighbor hired an escavator to his house so I've got him coming
over to dig me a pond. The pond will be about 200 feet higher than my
house up the hill. There are several springs above where the pond will
be so I should be able to feed it -- possibly even in the summer.

In the winter it will be no problemo -- the ground is shale and blue clay
so it should hold water without sealing it -- i hope. Too much water is
usally the problem around here so once the rains start i'll have plenty.

I'm putting in 2 inch black plastic pipe down to my house with valves to
regulate the water. I'll have to see just how fast I can run it so as
not to dry the pond out.

I've got a penton wheel that i'm hoping to hook to a PMA

http://www.hydrogenappliances.com/powerpmas.html

Dono if anyone has used these guys but they look like what I want. Right
now I just have a delco alternator to use for testing. Also my local
feed store actually had standard thread brass nozels that should work
great for spinning the turbine. I'm shooting for 700+ RPM constant..
depends on the water flow naturally.

Then that'll go into a Xantrex c40 charge controller in diverter mode to
a set of batteries. Since the hydro station will be next to my green
house I plan to divert into a heater that should keep the greenhouse warm
in the winter. (can you say tomatoes in jan?? )

The i'm planning on sending the outlfow over a wasabi bed and then back
into a streem below my house.

Man i've been looking forward to this bigtime.