Sounds interesting Strizzo. I may replicate some of your minnow habitat idea. What do you plan to stock first? fathead minnows? Will you stock BG at the same time?

GREAT NEWS
UPDATE: My neighbor has agreed to sell me the necessary bit of land to make my future pond larger.
Thanks to all who advised me not to build a "shared" pond. The possible negative scenarios you all described (Eddie, Brettski, Dave, and Rainman) made me get resolved to ask to buy a little land from him or just go with the smaller pond plan.