I'll leave it to people more familiar with your soils and area for the good recommendations, but if you will run into groundwater I would think a tracked excavator would be one of the preferred tools.

You also did not say what size. A half acre pond is a whole nuther situation that say 3-10 acres. Will it be a dammed up ravine, or a completely dug pond? From my perception of your description of property it sounds like the containment area would mostly be dug.

Last edited by snrub; 08/21/14 10:40 AM.
John

I subscribe to Pond Boss Magazine