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ponds
joshmb1982
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Who has a pond on their property? The pond I have here is around a half acre and is starting to get some pretty good vegetation growing in the water around the shore and it doesnt look all that great. Right now there are large and small mouth bass along with a few varieties of sunfish. Is there another kind of fish i can put in there that will keep the vegetation down some? in a few years i plan on giving the pond an overhaul and getting rid of the bass and sunfish and putting in trout and bullhead.
Any ideas?
Any ideas?
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I have a smaller pond that I was planning on using to water my garden. problem is the pond sprung a leak last year and is now just about empty.
There is a spring that feeds the pond so once patched it will fill back up. I am thinking of just renting a small backhoe and digging the bank out, refilling with dirt and lining the area with clay. My neighbor works for a trucking company and I should be able to get a truckload of clay delivered.
Would this work?
1. you need a keyway and rock fill for foundation.
2. clay is fine for overfill.
3. You must put in a hardsurface spillway
The pond drains by a 4" pvc pipe that comes through the bank and sicks up the the surface. This hole in the bank is about 6ft from where the pvc comes through the bank.
Find a well driller near you and get some bentonite chips to pour in the hole. That will seal the hole when they get wet.
Ive got 3 100lb bags of bentonite clay powder I tried mixing in a bucket to make a paste and packing the hole full of that. It worked for a little while but as soon as the water level started to rise the water dug a path around the plug and re-used the unpatched portion of hole.
be sure to contact the 27 govt agencies that will tell you that you cannot do what you want with your own property or become an instant felon
Guess which part of my anatomy those agencies can kiss[;)]
Put in a beaver,problem solved.<1FMJ>
Beaver don't solve anything. They eventually ran me off my happy hunting ground in Lunenburg County. If you want your property under water or only accessible by boat, then you put in a beaver.
I hate them devils.
So you don't land in Jail
Contact-
Dept of fish and game.
Coastal commission.
USGS.
Planning commission.
Agenda 21 (counsel of urban development)
This would cost about 25k.
If it were mine and I didn't have the heavy equipment resources to fix it properly, I'd core out an area at least 3-4' in diameter and 2-3' deep around the obvious hole and either tamp it full of clay or invest in 400-500# of bentonite and tamp a 6-8" thick plug with common clay on top. Regardless of what material you use for a plug, it will have to be tamped in place. Just dumping clay on top and spreading it out won't do much (any) good.
Most likely there is a section of that part of the dam that has collapsed and hollowed out. Crayfish/crawdads are bad at digging tunnels in dirt dams that allow water to wash the underlying soil away. If there is a pocket it will just keep eroding out around anything you try to fill the hole with.
If it is not to large. Barrow or rent a plate compactor such as this to thoroughly compact the soil if you do not have access to a roller (ones that vibrate work best).