Anyone mapped their pond with Autochart or similar - 10/09/20 08:49 PM
If so....share your thoughts
Here is mine
Plotted with a helix 5 g2 sonar/gps via my row boat - took about 2hrs rowing a grid pattern over the entire pond, screenshotted the map from the head unit and saved to a microsd card then cleaned up the shoreline cutoff with a photo editor.
It isn't 100% accurate but it is very close.
It is interesting to see how silted in the top and bottom boundaries are! My pond is 50 years old, was over 20' deep when constructed and had a creek channel running down the middle. The channel is mostly silted in, the dam face is extremely silted in and the top end is where sediments drop out from the feeder creek which is also the outlet creek of an upstream pond.
Just thought I would share!
Here is mine
Plotted with a helix 5 g2 sonar/gps via my row boat - took about 2hrs rowing a grid pattern over the entire pond, screenshotted the map from the head unit and saved to a microsd card then cleaned up the shoreline cutoff with a photo editor.
It isn't 100% accurate but it is very close.
It is interesting to see how silted in the top and bottom boundaries are! My pond is 50 years old, was over 20' deep when constructed and had a creek channel running down the middle. The channel is mostly silted in, the dam face is extremely silted in and the top end is where sediments drop out from the feeder creek which is also the outlet creek of an upstream pond.
Just thought I would share!