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I bought some land that has an already built pond. Pond is only about 1/8th of an acre.

It should have been about a .5 acre pond, but what the guy did was build a levy between 2 sides of the pond. One side has a dry creek run into it that keeps is moderately full. The other is the pond he built that has well water filling it up.

Problem I'm having is that levy is seeping. I looks like it did enough that finally sprung a full on leak. I took some bentonite and lined the area where the leak was coming from and cranked up the well water.

Has sort of fixed it, but not permanently. As in it's not leaking bad anymore, but it's obviously seeping.

I'm thinking the right thing to do is bring in dirt and pack that levy up some more on top and on the back side. Then maybe line the whole area of the levy inside the pond with bentonite.

Or do y'all think seepage like this is pretty normal and maybe I should just try the bentonite or maybe do nothing at all but keep the water cranked up.


Eventually I want to push the levy to dam up that dry creek and make it a bigger pond, but for now it has a good eco system with vegetation and fish and I'd like to just fix it.


Curious if anyone else has solved a similar problem? Hoping there are some lowish cost solutions.

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Originally Posted By: Brand0
I bought some land that has an already built pond. Pond is only about 1/8th of an acre.

It should have been about a .5 acre pond, but what the guy did was build a levy between 2 sides of the pond. One side has a dry creek run into it that keeps is moderately full. The other is the pond he built that has well water filling it up.

Problem I'm having is that levy is seeping. I looks like it did enough that finally sprung a full on leak. I took some bentonite and lined the area where the leak was coming from and cranked up the well water.

Has sort of fixed it, but not permanently. As in it's not leaking bad anymore, but it's obviously seeping.

I'm thinking the right thing to do is bring in dirt and pack that levy up some more on top and on the back side. Then maybe line the whole area of the levy inside the pond with bentonite.

Or do y'all think seepage like this is pretty normal and maybe I should just try the bentonite or maybe do nothing at all but keep the water cranked up.


Eventually I want to push the levy to dam up that dry creek and make it a bigger pond, but for now it has a good eco system with vegetation and fish and I'd like to just fix it.


Curious if anyone else has solved a similar problem? Hoping there are some lowish cost solutions.


BrandO, have you tested the well water?


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