Pond Boss Forums INTRO New Forum Member Introduction Hello, Thanks for the welcome.

I own 80 acres near Richer Manitoba. I am currently measuring and mapping out an area for a one acre pond. The area is low land and is classed as organic soil. I'll be doing a soil test in the spring but i don't think there will be a problem holding water there are so many ponds in the area already and i have a high water table.The pond will be excavated with no dam ,about 70 feet wide by about 300 feet long and about 8 to 10 feet deep at the center,no stream feeding but it will have a spillway to an existing ditch on the property. Thats it for now. I'll post again as I progress.--pappy

The pond is going to have different dimensions if you want one acre... 300 x 70 = 21,000 square feet which is roughly half an acre. I would be concerned about the depth and if that is deep enough to survive a winter in Manitoba.

Welcome Pappy! I look forward to seeing your progress.

Pappy, welcome to PB. I share the concern of the pond being too shallow. I would shoot for at least 1/4 acre of the eventual 1 acre being in excess of 12-14'. You need deep water to allow your fish to survive the long Canadian winters under the ice your pond will surely get covered in...

Hello, you guys are probably right, I figured on 8-10 feet deep would be adequate but I suppose deeper would be better.I have'nt given much thought to fish there seems to be so many hoops the gov't. wants you to jump through to stock it but , never say never.As long as my soil sample shows some clay ,everything should work out fine if its too sandy I'll have to look for another location.--Thanks Pappy

pappy, the other thing to think about is that Mother Nature wants to continually fill in ponds. So, in a couple of years you might lose a foot or so of depth.

When I renovated my pond I lost 3'-4' of depth in the first month..... I didn't prepare for Hurricane Ike to come roaring thru when I was in Wy. hunting, and the rain washed a bunch of dirt into the pond. I didn't have erosion controls in place, nor was the grass established yet.

We don't have storms up here that would dump that much fill into a pond that quickly. We might get the odd tornado, even that would be rare.Flooding from a quick snow melt is my biggest concern,but I should have adequate drainage to cover that. Just in case I'm planning to put my house on a hill created from the earth from the pond site.Plus the house will be 150 yards from the pond. There is a neighbor on the next mile road with 3 ponds and his house in the middle like a clover leaf.I think I'm going to talk to him and get some info on his do's and don'ts. I'll keep in touch.--pappy