Pond Boss Forums POND CONSTRUCTION Selecting a site Hill Country Ponds w/ waterfall & stream

The slopes can certainly be achieved might have to use a track hoe. I'm sure a dozer could do it might just take a little longer to climb out with the load. I thank you said you only had 7 acres of watershed I believe or in vision you are going to create a waterfall and use a siphon to feed it is that correct? If so the top of the water fall is the emergency spillway just size the width to the max flow rate expected. There are a group of homes along a creek or draw near where I work. It is now a series of ponds one feeding the next all along it with homes sitting on 1 an 2 acre tracts. All the dams have a pipe or concrete spillway that handle normal runoff. However this stream has several hundred acres of water shed. In larger rain events many of the dams that do not have room for an emergency spillway around the end used large flat sand stone and concrete and basically cover the entire dam. That allows water to flow over the entire dam in a flood. Given that you have such a small watershed I assume you could consider this type of approach which would just integrate into your water fall stream landscaping plan if I understand what you are trying to achieve. You could run the liner completely over the dam which would help keep water from getting under it and cutting the dirt away. If it will help I will drive by on my way home and take a pic of what I am talking about and post it here. You could stair step the slopes of your pone and align with boulders partially and completely submerged for a natural hill country look. You have many options just depends on the projects budget. As for habitat the sky�s the limit. Many post on here and many different options. May be you should start a thread on show me your habitat designs and folks will join in . If not try searching in this section http://forums.pondboss.com/ubbthreads.php?ubb=postlist&Board=4&page=1
or perhaps one of the other PB regulars can assist in locating existing threads.