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[beefsupreme]

A little while ago, my legendary woodcutter slipped into a murky pool and drowned. I sent my miner to try to dig out the level of the water, and retrieve the body, and when I opened the door, all of his possessions and his body floated on out as I expected. The murky pool is in a remote corner of my map on top of a mountain where I rarely ever look, so a few years pass without me giving any notice to that place, until I decide to dig out another room 1 z level underground and encounter some damp stone. When I look to see where the water is, I go up a z level and see a huge portion of the surface covered in murky pool water, and spreading fast.

What do I do to stop this? Is my fortress, a few z levels down from all this, doomed to drown in stagnant water from one murky pool?

[knutor]

Go to a rock layer, and smooth-fortify an edge block.  Then redirect the floodwater down through that exit-drain.  Hopefully if its made wide enough along the edge, one or two blocks larger than the entering flow, it'll outpace the flood, and you'll recover the topside.

Edit: Don't run it through any 1x1 diagonals, as that disables the pressure, and you WANT water pressure, to uncork the flooding.