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another place where I would be tomorrow and I would hike down from the Biltmore House and circle this, Bass Pond. I'm glad I got this picture though as the next day it was a little gloomy. The Bass Pond is a significant Biltmore Estate water feature, created from a creek-fed millpond. This bridge was featured in the Hollywood film, The Last of the Mohicans.
Brick arch bridge over Formalie Branch (Biltmore Estate Bass Pond) on Winery Approach Road. Builder
- Richard Morris Hunt.
In my video, behind me is a brick flume designed by Olmsted to divert silt in heavy runoff keeping the pond clear. Almost a thousand feet long with a opening of seven feet tapering to about half at the end. Designed to increase the force of water keeping the flume clear. When the stream was flooding the excess water overflowed into a brick chamber with a metal pan. As the pan filled with silt the heavier it became triggering a lever that closed a valve and diverted the floodwaters into the flume. When the stream returned to normal and no longer entered the chamber, the water in the pan drained through holes in the bottom, and as it rose, the action closed the valve and the stream resumed its normal course.
Brick arch bridge over Formalie Branch (Biltmore Estate Bass Pond) on Winery Approach Road. Builder
- Richard Morris Hunt.
In my video, behind me is a brick flume designed by Olmsted to divert silt in heavy runoff keeping the pond clear. Almost a thousand feet long with a opening of seven feet tapering to about half at the end. Designed to increase the force of water keeping the flume clear. When the stream was flooding the excess water overflowed into a brick chamber with a metal pan. As the pan filled with silt the heavier it became triggering a lever that closed a valve and diverted the floodwaters into the flume. When the stream returned to normal and no longer entered the chamber, the water in the pan drained through holes in the bottom, and as it rose, the action closed the valve and the stream resumed its normal course.