Our dam is going to be 20 foot tall, we are going to leave 3 feet of free board, so right about 17 foot at the deepest, the ravine its being built in has fairly steep sides, but there is a point were the ravine goes south one way and east the other, were going to take a large part of the dam materiel from this finger, and here we want to build a beach, with a nice gentle slope, were going to lay down one of those thick heavy fabrics that is laid under roads and drive ways and cover it in washed sand of course there will be a berm at the end to keep the sand from spilling to the bottom.
We are in USDA hardiness zone 6b, usually our winters are fairly mild, when ponds and lakes freeze over it doesn't last longer than a couple days, we seldom get snow on the ground more than a few days, occasionally a week or two. And seldom more than a few inches. We sit in a transition zone so the weather is fairly unpredictable, especially these last few years. We sit between the southern climate and northern climate. Snowmobiles, skis, and ice fishing are not real big here, but it can get cold, and we get sleet and cold rain, and ice sheets, the BOWs around here do regularly get ice sheets, not ones you can walk on, but half inch or so.
