ga pond rookie, congratulations. 1.5 to 1.75 acre pond will be a really nice size and i'm sure you'll have a great fishery in a couple years. FWIW, i spent over 20k to renovate a ~1 acre pond, and did the work myself (with a couple great friends and rented equip). if i'd hired it all out, it would have run well over 30k and i had bids as high as 50k, so relative to kahli-FOR-neeya prices it sounds like you did just fine in the dollar department.
