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Meant to post this earlier.

Pond is peanut shaped. about 100' x 275'.

far end is about 10-12 feet deep. Near end is 8-10 feet.
 

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additional pics
 

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had 2 excavators, dozer and 3, or 4 dump trucks running.
 

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another pic-starting to fill with water.
 

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Pretty cool, you Texas boys like your ponds! How long will it take to fill?
 
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Filled by groundwater, surface, pumped? Do you expect that it will stay full all year?

Nice clear looking water so far. When was the work done? If I tried that now it would me a soupy mess.
 
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Dirt work was done in June 05.
Partially filled by groundwater, and runoff, and then kept topped off by well.

I beleived we moved about 16,000 cubic yards of dirt.

I had to build my pad site up about 3ft. to get out of the 100 yr. flood plain. Didn't want it to look funny so I built a huge gradual pad site.
 
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