Pond Questions
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bindian
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Tractorshopper,
I see two problems that will cause it to leak and read in your post above another problem. The island tree's roots go down into ground water level and can be siphoning off your water. Since the tree's roots are saturated in standing pond water.............it will die of root rot. Drain the pond and take out the tree and take out all visible roots. The loamy section is highly suspect also as it could act like a straw down to ground water level. Dig it out and line it with clay. The pond dam does not have enough mass. I had seepage on my first pond's dam and added another foot of clay and the seepage stopped. Your dam looks way short and narrow. Beef it up.
Your core sounds good, as you dug down to solid clay. Have fun!
hugs, Brandi
I see two problems that will cause it to leak and read in your post above another problem. The island tree's roots go down into ground water level and can be siphoning off your water. Since the tree's roots are saturated in standing pond water.............it will die of root rot. Drain the pond and take out the tree and take out all visible roots. The loamy section is highly suspect also as it could act like a straw down to ground water level. Dig it out and line it with clay. The pond dam does not have enough mass. I had seepage on my first pond's dam and added another foot of clay and the seepage stopped. Your dam looks way short and narrow. Beef it up.
Your core sounds good, as you dug down to solid clay. Have fun!
hugs, Brandi
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a good amount of "weeds" errr water plants and mosses. will grow from within 4 feet depth. 4 feet and deeper the vegetation normally stops. if you have "shallow sides" then any sort of swimming, or fishing, or watching fish is going to be problematic.
if your soil can handle steeper sides, then go with steeper sides. so you can reduce amount of water weeds that will grow around the shore line.
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compound problems. with a clay bottom or mud bottom pond, or mud line pond. (take your pick in how ya describe it)
water will fluctuate throughout the year. and also along the years between drought years, to huge amounts of rain years.
for the 2 lake / ponds i have. these can by any were from right at full going over the "over flow pipe" and if overflow pipe gets clogged, then another 6 to 12 inches for water to go over spillway.
but during drought years or mid to late summer, water may go down 5 plus feet easily.
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for wintering fish in pond, ya looking at most likely wanting 6 feet depth or deeper. (6 feet dept = actual water depth, and accounting for fluctuation of water level in pond/lake). 6 feet is ball park. but getting a couple feet below your "frost line", might be better way to judge things. say if frost line is 3 feet depth for your area, then dig down 5 feet. and then from that point you would want 6 feet of water depth above the bottom of the pond. for fish to overwinter much better in the pond.
getting past the frost depth line for your area, gets the pond into more better 55 F degree zone of dirt. and helps keeps the fish from turning into popsicles. further you go down below the frost line, the better off the fish will over winter in regards to just temperature, there are many other factors.
if your soil can handle steeper sides, then go with steeper sides. so you can reduce amount of water weeds that will grow around the shore line.
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compound problems. with a clay bottom or mud bottom pond, or mud line pond. (take your pick in how ya describe it)
water will fluctuate throughout the year. and also along the years between drought years, to huge amounts of rain years.
for the 2 lake / ponds i have. these can by any were from right at full going over the "over flow pipe" and if overflow pipe gets clogged, then another 6 to 12 inches for water to go over spillway.
but during drought years or mid to late summer, water may go down 5 plus feet easily.
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for wintering fish in pond, ya looking at most likely wanting 6 feet depth or deeper. (6 feet dept = actual water depth, and accounting for fluctuation of water level in pond/lake). 6 feet is ball park. but getting a couple feet below your "frost line", might be better way to judge things. say if frost line is 3 feet depth for your area, then dig down 5 feet. and then from that point you would want 6 feet of water depth above the bottom of the pond. for fish to overwinter much better in the pond.
getting past the frost depth line for your area, gets the pond into more better 55 F degree zone of dirt. and helps keeps the fish from turning into popsicles. further you go down below the frost line, the better off the fish will over winter in regards to just temperature, there are many other factors.
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there are a good amount of threads here on forum, showing how to use a chain, and a A frame, or a tire rim, to other. to pull a tree over, and at same time help remove the stump.
if ya cutting tree down. leave a few feet say 6 to 8 feet of stump. so you have something to wrap around higher. to pull stump and root ball over and out.
if ya cutting tree down. leave a few feet say 6 to 8 feet of stump. so you have something to wrap around higher. to pull stump and root ball over and out.
Bdavis
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Really appreciate the heads up on the cat tails . Those things grew like crazy. Water is high right now so very difficult to get them up. I found a little sharp shooter shovel worked best. I will just continue to knock them down with the bushwacker blade on my weedeater. I read as long as you can cut them down
just above the water line they will die eventually, so that is my plan of attack. Attached is photo, last year there was only a couple
