This isn't really a site selection question, as we only have one real choice, but I'd still like any comments or input about what we're hoping to do.
We built here three years ago, and the creek was mostly dry the last two years but we've had a severe drought. This year, we've had tons of rain and we get a LOT of runoff. I am posting two Google pics (I hope) - the first shows the area north of our property. We get the overflow from two ponds and actually got some of their fish earlier this year. With our recent record rains, quite a bit of the proposed pond area was covered with water. We don't know how the creek would be in a "normal" year because we haven't seen one yet!
The second photo shows a very rough idea of the pond area. We will encompass the current creek from north to south (top to bottom in the photos). Where the creek cuts back to the east (right), we will fill it in so that our dam actually backs up to ground that is higher than what the dam will be. (Does that make sense?) Any/all water that leaves the pond will be forced to go over the spillway and on into the creek that goes south, which some water actually did with this spring's rain. The Google pics are old. We've cleared quite a few trees since these were taken but some will remain on the spillway.
As I first posted last week, we are TRYING to work with the NRCS on this as we know the runoff information is important but...
Thoughts? Suggestions?
