Yeah, none of this makes any sense. You can't "drain a lake" just by blocking the inflow (and where has all that springwater been going? It's been blocked for what, centuries, so why didn't the water pressure build up and blow the blockage?). He should have had to fill in the lakebed as well, to stop it from refilling with rainwater.
SCSF: Indeed, a short look around learns me that there is no good way to "block" a spring, only to divert it. In this case, the spring was apparently blocked by pouring rocks into it, in which case the water should be seeping out of the top of the rocks and the Lake of Life should have refilled in the meantime! Even if the spring was plugged sufficiently, the water would just come out on an unpredictable spot...
The smart thing to do would have been to dig a canal from the outflow gully, block the path to the Lake of Life, and then divert the water to a tributary of the Nordra. And yes, the lakebed should have been filled in... maybe with a gradient leading to a canal that joins the other one.
And yes, if Icarii built this, there should have been some outcry over that. None of this makes sense. Well, at least we now have a solid understanding of what is wrong here to use later!
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Yeah, none of this makes any sense. You can't "drain a lake" just by blocking the inflow (and where has all that springwater been going? It's been blocked for what, centuries, so why didn't the water pressure build up and blow the blockage?). He should have had to fill in the lakebed as well, to stop it from refilling with rainwater.
SCSF: Indeed, a short look around learns me that there is no good way to "block" a spring, only to divert it. In this case, the spring was apparently blocked by pouring rocks into it, in which case the water should be seeping out of the top of the rocks and the Lake of Life should have refilled in the meantime! Even if the spring was plugged sufficiently, the water would just come out on an unpredictable spot...
The smart thing to do would have been to dig a canal from the outflow gully, block the path to the Lake of Life, and then divert the water to a tributary of the Nordra. And yes, the lakebed should have been filled in... maybe with a gradient leading to a canal that joins the other one.
And yes, if Icarii built this, there should have been some outcry over that. None of this makes sense. Well, at least we now have a solid understanding of what is wrong here to use later!