There is an excellent tool on Google Earth Pro (free) to measure area in acres, square feet, hectares, etc. If there is a picture showing your pond or land, you can measure it. Click on the ruler icon, and the measuring tool pops up. Select area measure, units, and start clicking the mouse around the perimeter.
I used that app last night and got a shock. My .25ac mutt hole shrank to .10!!
Gonna really have to watch the carrying capacity now. Good thing it's deep!! On a positive note, aught to be able to get a full turn over much quicker if I can ever get aeration installed. If my other calculation is correct, with an estimated average depth of 10', that's putting me at exactly 1 acft of water.
.10 surface acre pond, 10.5 foot deep. SW LA. The epitome of a mutt pond. BG, LMB, GSF, RES, BH, Warmouth, Longear Sunfish, Gambusia,Mud Minnows, Crappie, and now shiners!!...I subscribe!!
Can you share the name of the app? I have used Google earth, however the overhanging willows make it hard to accurately mark the side banks.
Last edited by Clay N' Pray; 07/02/1805:20 AM.
Half acre 30 year old farm pond, Mebane NC. Aeration & feeder. LMB, CC, SC, BG, HBC, two no account welfare carp and nine seasonal Tilapia that all the other fish are terrified of.
Can you share the name of the app? I have used Google earth, however the overhanging willows make it hard to accurately mark the side banks.
It's the measuring app within Google Earth Pro.
If it was mine, I would cut all those willows and paint the stumps with Tordon Stump Killer. Willow roots will invade the water's edge with huge mats of roots, and will drop leaves into the water in fall, forming muck. Any live twig that falls into the water can start a new willow. After six months or so from painting them with Tourdon, you could hook onto the dead stumps and pull them out with a tractor. Dead willow rots rapidly.
Measuring, and allowing for the overhanging trees, your pond is 0.52 acres at the stage of fill when the picture was taken.
With the road so close, how do you keep people out?
Can you share the name of the app? I have used Google earth, however the overhanging willows make it hard to accurately mark the side banks.
It's the measuring app within Google Earth Pro.
If it was mine, I would cut all those willows and paint the stumps with Tordon Stump Killer. Willow roots will invade the water's edge with huge mats of roots, and will drop leaves into the water in fall, forming muck. Any live twig that falls into the water can start a new willow. After six months or so from painting them with Tourdon, you could hook onto the dead stumps and pull them out with a tractor. Dead willow rots rapidly.
Measuring, and allowing for the overhanging trees, your pond is 0.52 acres at the stage of fill when the picture was taken.
With the road so close, how do you keep people out?
Thanks John!
Regarding the road frontage, it's a private, dead end road. Trespassers are exactly that.
Half acre 30 year old farm pond, Mebane NC. Aeration & feeder. LMB, CC, SC, BG, HBC, two no account welfare carp and nine seasonal Tilapia that all the other fish are terrified of.
there is also a timeline on google earth pro. sometimes you can find a different image on the timeline such as winter when the leaves are gone. easier to see the waters edge that way
