Perfect day. The high was 71 degrees and it will be even warmer tomorrow. I meandered around the waterfall for several hours today, planning. My earlier plans are over, and the plans which those around me have been offering whenever they walk by are never really even in the picture, so I'm working on, "next". I've traced all of the issues to this - the new pump doubled the flow of water. (a quarter horse waterfall overwhelmed by a one horse pump). For about an hour I felt that this would not be fixable, and may have been correct but am going to try and fix it anyway. If I make the input bowl about 5 times bigger than what it was (I already started the remodel), I can dampen the flooded village effect. This will work.
And if it doesn't, it isn't like I wasted my time.