Pond Boss Forums MANAGING AN EXISTING POND Corrective stocking bill cody or mike otto

Follow Bob's advice. Our summer in Ohio has been fairly wet so your clay should not have cracked very much assuming you also had quite a bit of rain. I would put a call in to the pond builder/contractor and see what he says. He may want to do a site visit if he is in the area to check it. Ask him if it is worthwhile to add some damp clay-soil mix to the cracked & dampened area. He may want to come back to pack it all together with the backhoe bucket. As Bob said be sure the sides of the dam are not shoughing. Real heavy, pure, clay soils can crack fairly easily when they dry out. Maybe add some topsoil in the areas adjacent and on top the dampened crack and spread some grass seed. Not much will sprout/grow anymore this year. But as fall winter progresses the moisture should stay in the crack zone so it doesn't enlarge over winter. Hopefully the grass will sprout and grow next spring. Make it a point to keep it damp next spring-summer to get the grass established.