Has anybody built a pond?

[gmason]

Heath, as you can see from those pictures, we had a Huricain hit just before we finished it and it blew out our overflow pipes. Depth is 13-14' in several places and mostly in the 7-8' depths.

We hadn't had .25" of rain all summer and the tracthoe still managed to bury digging out the pond. We never hit a true spring, but just a bunch of water trapped in the lower soil layers by some kind of rock layer down in the 15'-20'' range.

We are at a lower level in our development and the road ditches from about 40-50ac of 9 homesites run down to our pond. This time of year, even after 5-6 days after a rain we still have water coming out of the overflow pipes, in the summer it's closer to 2-3 days.
We built the pond because of <font color="red"> too </font> much water.


gary

 

[chrisjbell]

Shucks, your link isn't working for me. I'll try again later - would like to see what equipment you used.

My soil has lots of clay in it. Unfortunately, below the clay is rock. My neighbor built his pond too deep (he's on a steep hill and didn't have much choice) and had to line it with concrete - the dam leaked because there was too much rock.

But on the other side I have a couple of neighbors that just dug big holes and they hold water fine. Hopefully I can do the same.

 

[dummy]

Sometimes, Yahoo isn't the best. I'll try attaching to here. Used a Case backhoe, an old 8n and my little 1220. 8N was pulling the grader box and used a rake on the other. Being lazy, easier than switching attachments.

 

[dummy]

View of the pond (water feature?)

 

[Anonymous Poster]

Looks like a 580E. Nice machines. Love case backhoes!!

Blake
WA

 

[chrisjbell]

Hey, that turned out really nice! Good job, and thank you for posting the pictures.

 

[dummy]

Hopefully, will look better soon. Poured part of the foundation for my new millhouse last weekend. This site greg's pond has a lot of inspirational stuff on it (filters, ideas, etc.). Don't spend the extra money on pond pumps, a pool pump will work just as well and they are about 1/2 the price. Dollar wise right now, diesel fuel, beverages and concrete are the biggest expenses i've had.
Although, this can easily become an obsession /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif

 

[dummy]

yes, it is. If only it was 4 wheel drive though! Maybe when it grows up?

 

[Anonymous Poster]

"We had way too much water source so we had to put in a pond to control runoff. I have a 18" pipe coming into the pond and 3 12" going out.I use mine to irrigate the whole property with it, about 7 circuits now and growing".

Here is a picture of my pond. Sorry I can't get the resolution right. It started life as a huge file... I have about 2000' of Roberts Row-Drip tape on the flowers but I would like to irrigate the field and lawn. I like to hear more about how you have your circuits set up and pump info...

thanks,
Dave

 

[Anonymous Poster]

Well Dave....

Have to ask the next question...when does a pond end and a LAKE begin???

Very nice!