Pond Boss Forums POND CONSTRUCTION Selecting a site Need Help For a Bass Lake...!!

Ideally the incoming creek should be dry unless it's raining - well, that's one view.

NY should get enough rainfall for 5 or 10 acres of runoff (depending on what the vegetation is) to provide sufficient water for each surface acre of the pond. An actual running stream feeding the pond of course provides more water, but also may provide a different set of problems to deal with such as existing fish populations in the stream and possible increased government licensing/permitting/restrictions.

Analysis of the topo map of the land, or posting it here if you want some help reading it, may be the best way to analyze the lay of the land for a pond site. Then possible pond sites should have test holes dug to determine the soil types present to judge suitability - to greatly simplify things, clay is good (to use for the cored dam), sand and gravel are bad (leaks).