As much as you might like to recreate your youth vision of the pond, the more practical solution might be to let it be a nice wetland like it is and build a new pond adjacent to it. The cost is likely to be a lot less and you are starting with a clean slate where you can correct the problems of the original pond. One glaring one is excessive watershed. Build the new pond in such a manner on the side of a hill instead of the valley where the watershed size is known. The NRCS can help with pond size and recommended watershed. Too much watershed and the pond has excessive silt problems and large water flow requirements for the overflow system. Too little watershed and the pond gets too low from evaporation between rains and nutrient build up because of little flow through.
I know that does not answer your question, but having built several new ponds as well as cleaned out three old ones, new construction is the way to go. Cheaper, better and can be designed properly.
Just the way I personally would approach it.
Last edited by snrub; 04/21/17 11:32 PM.
