Pond Boss Forums POND CONSTRUCTION Selecting a site starting the dream

Thanks JBK, and everyone. What a terrible journey for JBK. There are probably more stories like that out there.

I spoke with the neighbors where the land is located and they are in the same boat. They brought the extra plots to sell in the future for their retirement. They can not build on the other two lots either. We are hoping to set up a face to face with the county zoning and township chairman.

After talking with my wife we are moving in a slightly different direction. We do not need to build a barn, garage or pole barn for the most part. We are looking at buying a used pop up trailer to leave at the the land for when we visit. The trailer would provide beds, water, toilet and place to hang out after fishing or swimming. I will build several small sheds, under 100 square feet (10 x 10) for storage. We can put a table and folding chairs and all the tools and fishing equipment in the sheds. I can run electricity to the lot and have water. I can build a nice fire pit, dock and may be a deck. I would like to build a 20 by 20 foot concrete slab (patio) upon which to set the camper and sheds and table and chairs.

I think this will be cheaper than a 3 car garage or similar building and allow us to utilize the pond and land until the road issue is resolved.

The big point is that we were not going to build a house until the kids are out of high school which is not for 14 years and we really do not need any type of outbuidling except for what I mentioned above. There are no covenants against camping or pop ups so at this point I do not see any problems. I hope the road issue is resolved by then.

I meet with an excavator today to continue to rough tune the pond work and design. At this point we are still moving a lot of dirt due to the rock and the basin limitations. Pond size is bouncing around and probably will need to come down to 1 to 1.5 acres. Once we get a fairly strong design and cubic yards amount (price) than I will bring in the pond consultant to begin the deconstruction and finalization of the plan.

All in all, the dream moves forward, slower than desired and more cautiously.