Looking for someone in the Seattle area who can assist with my pond. The only one I know of are the folks at Spring Creek in Oregon and they are a little too high scale for me.
The story is I finished the 1st building of an about 100' by 100' pond in April 05 and filled it Dec. 05 when the winter rains came. We hit gray clay on the bottom and the sides are a mix of what you would maybe call rocky hard pan and sand. If I walk around in the water on the edges I do not sink as it is vary hard. Anyway have filled it the last 3 winters and it leaks about 20,000 gallons a day when full and slows as it drains down, never enough to dry out in the summer. Stays close to half full but to the under half full side. Am going to drain it this summer and see if I can see what is going on. Maybe have to do more construction but money is tight.
Two sides are where the property falls off and for that we built a dam 15' to 20' thick at the top and going out at a 45 degree angle and we packed those in well. The other two sides are natural ground. During the peak of summer, before I filled it, on one of the natural sides and near the bottom of the pond I saw water seeping in and am wondering maybe the loss I am getting is just flowing back out that area rather than "silting" over in time as I thought the whole thing would do. As said it has been full to half full for almost 3 years and I think that is plenty of time to seal up "naturally".
Anyway, just found this site a few days ago and have been reading through a lot of the info but decided to start my own conversation and see if anyone could name someone close who might be able to see it for themselves after I drain it.
Thanks a bunch
Last edited by Jed58; 04/17/08 08:12 PM.
