rogerius
Silver Member
Hello to all good people
I was reading for some time this forum with a lot of passion and interest and I decided to post here some questions about our future project. I found lots of posts on this topic with a lot of interesting and good information.
We purchased a 92 acres property in Ontario, Grey County area and our plan is to build a pond. Based on reading we decide the bigger is the better, so we are thinking at a 1 acre pond 12ft deep, with purpose of swimming/some fish, but generally enjoying the water. Below I attached the sketch created for this pond. We appreciate any comments, suggestions, advice about this and more important think what I have to ask is: how much do you think this project can cost. So far we found one guy who said can do it and he started working at the quote, but I wish to have an idea from you about an estimated cost.
The land is almost flat with no trees or additonal work required so only digging is required. We are planning to level our front property which is at 200-300ft from the pond with the dirt resulted from digging the pond. The water will be from mother nature (rain and snow).
As a personal story about cost: we had to demolish two logs barns on this property, no foundation and no roof, and we asked around who can do it and for how much. Anyhow, we received about 10 quotes starting from 2000$ up to 8000$ and in the final we selected a serious person who did it for 3000$ (demolish, buried the barns in the ground and resurface the 200ft of driveway). So, I don稚 understand how somebody can ask 8000$. In this case, it was easy for us to evaluate the work required, but digging a pond is a big unknown for us and this is the reason why we ask for your opinion.
Thanks
Floyd
I was reading for some time this forum with a lot of passion and interest and I decided to post here some questions about our future project. I found lots of posts on this topic with a lot of interesting and good information.
We purchased a 92 acres property in Ontario, Grey County area and our plan is to build a pond. Based on reading we decide the bigger is the better, so we are thinking at a 1 acre pond 12ft deep, with purpose of swimming/some fish, but generally enjoying the water. Below I attached the sketch created for this pond. We appreciate any comments, suggestions, advice about this and more important think what I have to ask is: how much do you think this project can cost. So far we found one guy who said can do it and he started working at the quote, but I wish to have an idea from you about an estimated cost.
The land is almost flat with no trees or additonal work required so only digging is required. We are planning to level our front property which is at 200-300ft from the pond with the dirt resulted from digging the pond. The water will be from mother nature (rain and snow).
As a personal story about cost: we had to demolish two logs barns on this property, no foundation and no roof, and we asked around who can do it and for how much. Anyhow, we received about 10 quotes starting from 2000$ up to 8000$ and in the final we selected a serious person who did it for 3000$ (demolish, buried the barns in the ground and resurface the 200ft of driveway). So, I don稚 understand how somebody can ask 8000$. In this case, it was easy for us to evaluate the work required, but digging a pond is a big unknown for us and this is the reason why we ask for your opinion.
Thanks
Floyd