this may help you a little bit i hope. i'm not real familiar with your dirt but it looks good to me. i have learned over the past 25 yrs that every pond wash out or problem will tell you why it happened if you look at your surroundings closely. when i saw your picture my first thought was its washed out right in the center of the original ditch or creek. due to the placement of your pipe i figured it was anyway. so i ask myself why here. i have probably rebuilt over a hundred ponds with this same problem always because they didnt allow for enough shrinkage in dam. your packer will eliminate a lot of this problem i would compact every lift and when i came up 5' i would restake my backface and frontface to make sure i got the full width of dam compacted and start every lift at the back running over core with that loader with every load working my way to the front. then i'd add 5% shrinkage for peace of mind so that if its gonna wash out again it wont be here. and them nrcs guys are usually good at what they do

Last edited by tim pinney; 05/10/10 12:35 AM.