Well, I have been doing the leg work on this project now for 3 months! It's been quite an experiance to say the least...Here are a few steps I have gone through so far and still have a long ways to go..

1) I took for ever to finally find this tract of land and buy it from the timber company. This started way back in April and it closed in August.
When I was searching for this, of course, I wanted to make sure it had the lake site I wanted..
2) After closing on the tract I had the NRCS come out and inspect the site, flag the water line, and flag the center line of the dam.
3) The NRSC then helped me with filling out all the paperwork for the Core of engineers and Georgia Safe Dams.
4) I talked with the core of engineers and they gave me a 404 permit, then I talked with Georgia Safe Dams and they came out and gave me a cat II permit. After that I was legally ready to start.
5) I then had to find a trust worthy timber company to come and log the 17 acres where the lake was going to be.
6) The timber company had clear cut the entire site, and boy it looked like a Tornado hit!! to say the least I was over-whelmed. The wood they logged was mostly saw class HW and pine timber. But later on that day, after the amount I was told I would get, It did not look near as bad, heck that timber sale, will almost pay for the lake!!
7) Now I have to find some way to clean all these brush piles everywhere, and it's alot! And this is where am at now...

I wish I would have taken photos of the place before the timber was cut! I could have kept real good records and gave them to pond boss and they could have done a article on this!
When I figure out what to do next I will keep you all informed.