Originally Posted By: RAH
I originally hoped to float the rocks out, but ended up carrying each one out. It was a lot of work, but worth it for me. It will actually be submerged a couple of inches when I finish bringing up the water level next year. I bought it up 7" last year (this picture before that) and will bring it up an additional 5" next year. I had good luck on my first pond by starting 12" low and gradually raising the water level over a few years. This seemed to help establishing emergent plants and bald cypress.


That's a lot of rocks to carry! How deep is the water there? Were the rocks on site or did you have to bring them in? We've made a lot of corner posts out of rocks but that's dual purpose; make a corner post without having to dig in rock, and help clear a field.