Pond Boss Forums POND CONSTRUCTION Building a dam building a georgia pond

sorry I do not have anyone to refer out that way. keep us in the loop.

tractorboy what you end up doing should ultimately depend on the watershed. If this creek is live year around have you considered a concrete creek crossing that holds water deeper in the creek? I know you want be able to keep fish in it but it can add ecstatic value and be used for other recreational and AG purposes. It will provide you access to your wooded land. I don't know what the laws are for building a road crossing but it might be easier than calling it a pond.

For all you guys spun up on the GOV red tape concerning private ponds you’ll love this one. In my area of Texas we are in the middle of a GAS BOOM. They are drilling rigs popping up like a Christmas tree farms. The oil & gas companies are governed by the Texas railroad commission and not the EPA. They are building ponds on blue line streams, building creek crossing across large streams by just pushing brush in the creek and throwing in a bunch of riprap stone. My neighbor next door told them that they had better put in a concrete crossing or it wasn’t going to last. Well it lasted until the first 2 inch rain, it’s gone now. They are putting pad sites directly in flood hazard areas etc… Guess what they don’t have to have any type of permit to do this type of stuff. Maybe you guys in Georgia ought to form yourselves a oil and gas corporation and declare you’re exploring for oil and gas. Then you can do what you want when you want. From what I’m seeing around here this clean water act is BS.