Pond Repair

[Redlands Okie]

More information coming later but i recently got a call on a leaking pond repair. I am told its spring fed with a hard rock bottom. I will go look at the site and gather more info. For now i am looking for suggestions on thinks to look for. I am familiar with Bentonite clay to some degree and pumps of various size from hand moveable to light truck trailor pulled. Same for various dirt moving equipment such as light dozers and excavators.
Any ideas or suggestions would be much appreciated.

 

[Dadnatron]

They've gone and Fraced a crack in his bedrock bottom and its going to take a lot of caulking to fill it.

heh...

The only earthquake I've ever been in was in Guthrie, OK.

 

[Redlands Okie]

Wow, your almost there, this be about 60 miles north east of guthrie ok

 

[EddieWalker]

Interesting to learn where the leak is. I've always understood that rock is a very bad thing for holding water. Too many cracks and sealing clay to it never creates a bond that will stop water from flowing along the rock surface.

 

[rekees4300]

I've always understood that rock is a very bad thing for holding water.

Yes when I was a kid our neighbor had a pond with rock bottom. No matter how hard it rained, within a month it was empty! The guy eventually gave up trying to fix it and just built another at a different location.

 

[Redneck in training]

Good luck in fixing your pond. Based on my experience it might be hard and expensive.
When my pond was being built they dug themselves into thick (about 15 ft) layer of sand on the bottom. The builder put on few tons of bentonite and some plastic liner. The pond filled up few feet and dropped about a foot/day. I hired another bulldozer guy to spread another 14 tons of bentonite in the pond and cover it with about a foot of material. It dropped the leakage to about 1"/day. Then I bought a polymer sold by Seepage control company that claimed to built pond in sand. That dropped the leakage to about 0.5"/day at relatively high water level. The pond is still leaking at more or less constant rate and dropped about 8 ft in past six months. I called Seapage control and was told that there must be a hole somewhere otherwise the polymer would seal it. To make the story short we spent about 20000 on 0.7 acre pond and so far we have just a puddle. My suspicion is that the water follows the "hydrant" line or the hydrant line has a hole in it. Hopefully I will find time to figure out where it is leaking this spring/summer.

 

[Redlands Okie]

Thanks for the replies so far

 

[joefromga]

How much is an acre of Line-x? That would definitely work.

 

[countrybumpkin]

How much is an acre of Line-x? That would definitely work.

No, no, get a few cans of flex seal.

 

[rekees4300]

No, no, get a few cans of flex seal.

Greatest chit since sliced bread! :laughing: