During the drought this summer, my dam developed some major cracks in the top. The original dam is under 3 or 4 feet of the silt/muck that was pushed on top of it when I had the pond renovated a couple of years ago. My question is, should I be overly concerned about these cracks? They run most of the length of the dam and are about4 to 5 inches wide. On the backside I have about a 15 foot drop to the level ground behind the dam. I was going to run the dozer over it this weekend to fix the road on top of the dam but wasn't sure if that would be a good idea.

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That was going to be my next step but I looked a little better this weekend.The cracks were only about a foot deep so I cleaned up the road on top with the dozer so we'll see what happens.