My NRCS guy stays pretty busy but he still took time to design our main pond.

First involved an office visit where we stopped by and let him lnow the are of the property we desired the pond.

Over a couple weeks he came up with a preliminary design based on his digitized elevation maps with several optional water lines for different pond sizes and estimated yards of dirt to move for each size.

We chose a size, he did the final design work, and in a week or two came out and flagged the pond area and gave us a set of plans. We built the pond ourselves (3.1 acres) and had our own laser level so that was the last we needed him.

We have a guy that has been around working with farmers a long time and is a good guy. He has to be getting close to retirement, so who knows if we will get someone as good when he retires. Or someone at all.

John

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