Well, i have news! I'm not sure what to make of the news though lol. I did go did some test holes at the new house. i drew some dots on a picture to represent about where i dug the holes.
The two holes on the left side of the pic are the ones with the highest elevation. i went through a foot and a half of top soil in each of these holes before hitting a sandy layer. At about 3 1/2 to 4 feet i finally hit clay. it took a long time to get that deep because once i got to the sand layer water began running into the holes causing the sand to collapse. When i left to come home, these holes were filled with water. the one closest to the road was about 1 foot deep from the top to the water. The second hole was about 8 inches.
The hole closest to the top of the pic was the one at the lowest elevation. The arrow pointing to the right is pointing at the location where all the water is collecting. the arrow pointing up is the general direction of where the water seems to be headed...maybe a little more towards the right though. There is no real stream bed or anything, there is just a large soggy area in the woods around the puddle. This hole went pretty much the same as the first two as far as the soil i encountered. i didn't think i would EVER hit clay but i eventually saw just enough orange come from the tip of the diggers that i gave up lol. it was around 4+ feet deep. it was pretty soupy but didn't seem to fill up as much as the top 2 holes.
The last hole i dug was the one in the bottom right corner. It was about in the area i would expect the dam to run. After about a foot i hit a sand/clay mix that continued to about 3 feet deep and i hit a layer of gray clay. there was water in this hole but it was at least 2 1/2 to 3 feet from the top of the hole.
I'm not sure what to make of the water, and i don't think i can read anything into it at this point because it has rained alot this week.
I also saw the son of the owner of the pond across the road. I asked him about the pond and he said that several years ago, his father (deceased) made a deal with the county. The county needed some dirt for the road bed so he gave them dirt in exchange for the county digging the pond. He recommended i talk to another of my new neighors who is going to build a pond in the spillway of the pond across the road. If you look at the first picture i posted, there is a very large field to the left of the pond, it will be somewhere in that field....close to the woods. He is one of the guys i talked to about clearing my land. He is digging his own pond, i'm not certain how much pond building experience he has. I expect it's about the same as the other guys. There are alot of people around who do dirt work and most dig ponds was well....i'm not sure how many, if any, of them do it by the book though. Although the other neighbor that he had the guy from the conservation office out to look at his pond site. He also said that permits are required.
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