Ok, let me give you the history of his old family pond as it was told to me this evening.
Around 1960, a pond was created when beavers dammed up the south end of a small spring fed creek. They basically built their dam perfectly so that a trickle remained, flowing under a bridge. This pond is said to have been nearly 30 feet deep.
Years go by and the pond is silted in. Beavers abandon the pond and the dam fails. Now there is a tube that runs under the road for the creek to exit what is now a marshland of sorts.
First view here is an aerial. Please help me determine how large this pond is. If I had to guess I'd say around 2 acres, though I'm not exactly sure, on this aerial, how far north the water can potentially go. This photo was obviously taken before the dam failure.
And this is a bird's eye view of the property. The pond in question is the one just north of Hackberry there. It doesn't look to stretch that far north in this picture, but who knows at what stage of drainage it was.
Here is the drain pipe that runs under the road. Directly in front of it (left in this picture) the beavers had created their dam that basically made a U-shape around the pipe, effectively damming up the water.
The water level is said to have been the top of that small hill in front of the drain pipe. It is now approximately 5 feet from the leveled off silted in pond bottom.
Picture at pond bottom level.
Very saturated.
Creek runs through this low area that was once the pond. It branches off here and there, but ultimately just leads to that drainage pipe.
