pond building

[penokee]

This Rock Dam is approx. 50 feet downstream from first one.

 

[penokee]

another pic - high water - note where rapids start - location of rock dam.

 

[penokee]

Thought I'post a pic of the "Duck Pond" I built - hope to see "Little Duckies" shortly.
penokee /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif

 

[penokee]

One more pond - this one spring fed, plan to stock with rainbows so grandkids can catch a few.

Now that I'm "Ponded out", promise not to post any more pictures of ponds.

penokee /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif

 

[Homeboy]

very interesting Penoke, thanks - your picture with the downstream rock dam actually looks a lot like my situation, though you have more water volume ...

... I found a local env eng. who worked for a neighbor and who is going to come out and take a look ... more to come ...

 

[JTS1]

For ducks and geese, I was told once by someone, so fox and "Kiots" don't get them you build them a small island in the middle of the pond.

 

[dooleysm]

Depending on where you are, that island may or may not help. My wife had some ducks on the family pond when she was little. Coyotes, dogs, etc, would chase them into the pond, where they would happily take refuge. Then it got cold outside, then the pond froze, then the coyotes chased the ducks into the pond. Then they walked out after them and ate them.

 

[JTS1]

That must be where the old "fly south for the winter and not be somebodys dinner" came from /forums/images/graemlins/wink.gif

 

[have_blue]

</font><font color="blue" class="small">( That must be where the old "fly south for the winter and not be somebodys dinner" came from /forums/images/graemlins/wink.gif )</font>

No, no that doesn't work either. We wait for them to fly down here every winter. Duck and goose really add to the flavor of a gumbo!

I am liking that island idea though, as I will need some ducks to control duckweed. We have plenty of coyotes around here and a few criminal dogs.

 

[Homeboy]

The pond I have in mind is really too small to handle ducks (not that they won't invite themselves in), and too close to the house - I wouldn't want their waste by the front door ... I do want fish and need to find out if it is okay to have Koi in a pond that is directly part of a stream (because their spawn would infect the river) - the Eco guy is supposed to come by next week, so I'll know soon enough ...

homeboy