I live in Tasmania - australia - and built a series of what we call dams and you seem to call ponds...
Welcome Paradisetasmania. It's a good thing we call 'em ponds, other wise this site would be named Dam Boss and I believe that web address was taken just days after invention of the internet.
JHAP ~~~~~~~~~~ "My mind is a raging torrent, flooded with rivulets of thought cascading into a waterfall of creative alternatives." ...Hedley Lamarr (that's Hedley not Hedy)