I finally started my pond

[bullbreaker]

Ms Brandi
Pic of our pond and some of my friends.
The dogs don't belong to us were just watching-em for a week till elderly couple returns from a trip.
The brown/white goat name is Two-Tone been known to chase and try to knock to ground a couple of my male friends from Church. Has never messed with me. Very terratorial. I thought it was funny they didn't.

Boone

 

[bindian]

Ms Brandi
Pic of our pond and some of my friends.
The dogs don't belong to us were just watching-em for a week till elderly couple returns from a trip.
The brown/white goat name is Two-Tone been known to chase and try to knock to ground a couple of my male friends from Church. Has never messed with me. Very terratorial. I thought it was funny they didn't.

Boone

Boone,
Nice pond. How deep is it? What is the elevation there? It sure looks flat. Do your goats eat everything?
hugs, Brandi

 

[bullbreaker]

Boone,
Nice pond. How deep is it? What is the elevation there? It sure looks flat. Do your goats eat everything?
hugs, Brandi

Didnt make pond myself,fill for house pad.8' at deepest point in normal season.Have some small bass/bluegills/and occasional gator cottomouth from canal that borders property on side(dead end) not at back fenceline.
Don't know elv,I'd say house(pad) at least 4' higher than ground level. Goats are fed from field(grass,etc,products from TSC/local mom-pop feed stores).Also keep salt and mineral block licks in field. Got the goats sold(12), in 2 weeks moving (goats)about 12 miles N of here. Remember been downsizing for when I make move.
Goats like horses showed you other day are rescues and some bought at rite price others were given. Within two weeks should have a rescue mini horse here(seen-em already-in good shape just a little wild and mean).

Boone

 

[bindian]

Weeks ago, I mentioned to my son that Booger would go bonkers over a radio controlled boat in the pond. I said this as Booger's soccer ball was floating in the pond and he was have a conipshion fit over not being able to get the ball. Soooooooo..........................my Christmas present from my son was a radio controlled naval river boat. Be careful on what you wish for or say!

Below is the best photo ever, next to my daughter's UT graduation photo. The other two photos are of the R/C boat pushing Booger's soccer ball.
Happy New Year hugs, Brandi

 

[bindian]

Our local weather man told us the other night that, for 2012, we have a 9 inch surplus of rain for our yearly average. Adding last year gives that surplus a negative.

My pond has overflowed numerous times since filling up after the dry spell.

On Feb.26th, I put out 17 fifty pound bags of Sodium Bentonite Clay on the dam areas where water was seeping. This after ripping up every other 2 pier boards.

The pond has overflowed 3 times since the clay was put out. At first I thought it didn't work, as the pond was still seeking. But it only seeped down to 2 inches below overflow. Before putting out Bentonite, it seeped down to 10-12 inches before the seeps dried up. So I know it is working. Now I think it is a mass issue. The dam needs more mass on it, so I will see how to add 6 inches of dam height under the pier. I think I got that figured out. It will mean ripping up most of the pier and rebuilding it.
hugs, Brandi

 

[EddieWalker]

Brandi, did you just spread it out on top of the dirt? It doesn't looked mixed in at all.

Eddie

 

[bindian]

Brandi, did you just spread it out on top of the dirt? It doesn't looked mixed in at all.

Eddie

Correct. It is not mixed. This is the 620 grain clay. I told them my situation and they said the best thing to do is broadcast it and let it get wet.
hugs, Brandi

 

[PAGUY]

I read where cat litter works like bentonite. Google bentonite and found that Texas was the closest place to buy 50 lb bags from Pennsylvania.

 

[jinman]

Good luck with the bentonite, Brandi. I hope it does the job for you. I really like the color your water is now, but that is probably not enough to keep down algae, so you may have to add some more dye.

 

[EddieWalker]

Correct. It is not mixed. This is the 620 grain clay. I told them my situation and they said the best thing to do is broadcast it and let it get wet.
hugs, Brandi

Who is they?

I don't understand how that will accomplish anything. Betonite works by expanding when wet, and filling any voids that might be there. You have to apply enough of it to get the job done, which is why it's expensive, and you have to mix it in with your existing soil.

In everything that I've read about it, it takes quite a bit to work, and they always disk it in to mix it with the existing soil.

It's not garanteed to work, it just improves the soils ability to hold water. Compaction and existing quality of the clay is still the most important factor to holding water.

Eddie