Pond Boss Forums INTRO Questions & Observations New guy here

Howdy all, I've been lurking/reading this message board for several weeks and have learned a lot, laughed a bit too. Thanks to all who are involved in keeping the website up, it seems like a user friendly, well run spot.

I live in the NW corner of South Carolina, just below the NC line. My pond is just under 2 acres, with a smaller silt catcher (frog pond) above the main part of the pond. Stocked with LMB, shellcracker gills, 3 amurs, for weed control, and at least one lonely catfish that came from who knows where.

My new neighbor upstream from me has just built a new pond about the same size as mine. With the rains we've experienced recently, I'm thinking some of 2500 BG & 150 'Tiger'LMB he stocked have probably relocated into my pond along with more red clay silt than I want to talk about.

Thanks for allowing me to ramble on.

Tim Barnes,

Welcome to the forum. Its a fun place for folks interested in ponds and all that goes with them.

Thank your neighbor if you got any of those BG and/or F1's. They will make fine additions to your pond.

Tim, welcome aboard. Sounds like you have a well managed pond! Sure your experiences and problems will assist all on the board, good discussions occur here and usually the pro and cons of most situations come out. I live in Thailand, though the fish in my pond are quit different the "pond" experiences and expertise within Pond Boss have been a huge benefit, we all look forward to your future posts.

Meadowlark, thanks for the welcome, and I have thanked my new neighbor. His reply can't be posted here.

Don, Long ago, I spent some time in your beautiful country at Tahkli RTAFB while working on F-105's for Uncle Sam. Thanks for the welcome.

Welcome! Of all the various kinds of fish that can migrate from upstream ponds, you did pretty good.

Welcome to Pond Boss Tim!

I had a similar situation to yours last year with a small pond I had built. A new house going up behind me dumped a good portion of the front yard into my pond, lots of muddy water till they were able to get some ground cover established.

You mentioned that you had a desilting pond dug upstream of your 2 acre pond. Just curious, how far upstream from the 2 acre pond is this located, what is the size of this pond and how did you arrive at the size to build it?

Russ

[QUOTE]Originally posted by Russ:
[QB]Welcome to Pond Boss Tim!

I had a similar situation to yours last year with a small pond I had built. A new house going up behind me dumped a good portion of the front yard into my pond, lots of muddy water till they were able to get some ground cover established.

To quote a former president..."I feel your pain."
We just got the aftermath of tropical storm Cindy here (4&1/2" of rain in a few hours) and my pond water looks like a hog wallow. I've contacted my new neighbor about the problem and he's promised to add more bales of wheatstraw in the runoff areas coming into my pond. He planted rye grass and bermuda on the new dam and put bales of straw in the worst areas. The rye has died now, the bermuda seed must have washed away and the mud is above the bales he placed in his runoff areas. We've had an abnormal amount of rain this past month and I'm trying to be patient with this guy, being a new neighbor and all.

You mentioned that you had a desilting pond dug upstream of your 2 acre pond. Just curious, how far upstream from the 2 acre pond is this located, what is the size of this pond and how did you arrive at the size to build it?

The catch basin I had dug is approximately 200' above the main body of my pond. I put in a 3' coffer dam with a 12" corrugated pipe through it.
I didn't really give much fore thought to size, just told the track hoe operator to do what he thought was necessary. Ended up with an area about 20' wide and 30' long and as deep as his hoe could dig. Total cost was $800.00, including the pipe and borrowing clay for the coffer dam. The trackhoe operator is a long time family friend and I'm sure he cut me a break on his time. I did this project before my new neighbor bought the adjoining acreage, the catch basin worked great until he disturbed the soil upstream from me. It's now about 1/2 way silted in.
Thanks for your reply to my post,
Tim