My pond is almost completed. It should be finished tomorrow. It's going to be less than half an acre when it's done.
The contractor called me this evening to let me know he hit gravel at the bottom of the pond while trying to scrape up the last bit of clay to line the sides with.
He was just about to call it quits for the day when his tractor bucket hit the gravel.
He dug about 4 feet down and kept pulling up gravel - roughly about a 60% ratio of gravel to good clay and sand.
We are already at the bottom of where I wanted to go with the pond - about 8 to 10 feet deep.
The slope on the pond is a little steeper than 3 to 1.
I could go bigger with the pond and save the gravel for my own use - like a road topping for my twelve hundred foot driveway.
I could use the gravel for other things.
I could try to sell it.
The pond is strictly an excavated hole with a berm on one side to stand on. Almost every single truck load of dirt that came out of the pond was a good mix of sand and clay until he hit the gravel at the bottom.
What would you do?
Thanks!
EastTexasWoods
