I'm not 100% sure how much pond I have on my hands but it took about 2 hours of full blast on the garden hose to fill it and it rained pretty steadily the last hour. It is around 15X9X2. I'm guessing around 1,400-1,800 gallons. Anybody know how long it takes on avg. to fill a stock tank by garden hose (where you know the volume it holds)? I'm trying to ballpark my pond capacity.
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How Long Does it take to fill stock tank
Accomplice
May 09, 2007 11:28 AM
Replies (4)
Matt-D
May 11, 2007 08:22 PM
If my memory serves me, to calculate larger ponds you multiply lenghtXwidthXdepth and then by 7.5.. So by that, your tank is about 2025 gallons..
Matt
DavidY
May 15, 2007 09:17 AM
Whoa! Where'd you get a stock tank that big?! And how much did it cost? I want one of those! 
Accomplice
May 15, 2007 06:24 PM
My set up is a pond, not a stock tank. I just wanted to guesstimate the volume of water in my pond based on how long it normally takes to fill up any known # of gallons via a garden hose. So, if somebody said it takes them 30 mins. to fill up a 300 gallon stock tank, I could guesstimate that my 2 hours of fill up was around 1,200 gallons if the flow rates were similar.
DavidY
May 15, 2007 07:24 PM
Oh, I see. Well it all depends on the rate of flow coming out of your faucet. You could try filling up a 10 gal tub to get a rough estimate of flow. For example, 1 minute to fill a 10 gallon tub = 600 gal/hr.
