Originally Posted By: Snipe

180' of hand-laid riprap down, 400' to go!!!


That will really help with shore line erosion when your wind whips up. I did it to my 3 acre pond but was not going to on my RES or old refurbished one acre ponds. But after seeing what the wind was doing to the banks and dam, I did both of them. I was a lot more lazy. I used the front end loader on my tractor. Sprinkled a half bucket down the bank and into the water a ways, then put the bucket at 45 degree angle and pulled it back firmly into the bank.

Don't forget to put some below water line. As pond level drops during droughts, bare dirt will be exposed subject to erosion.

Bank erosion and rock lining.

For the people that don't like the looks of rock around the edges, in two or three years the grass and algae
will fill in and you don't even know it's there.

Last edited by snrub; 02/08/19 04:44 PM.

John

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