Alright, Mr. Otto asked me to design my ideal pond shape and so I played around on paint to get a good shape and wanted to get ya'lls opinion. Priorities for pond are- #1 great view of natural looking pond from house, #2 Geothermal Source, #3 Fishing and wildlife, #4 swimming, #5 easy to maintain, #6 cheap to build.
Gray lines are dugout portions, yellow is filled in, and levee in black. Most of the pond follows the natural elevation. I have shallow areas where i would like to have controlled weed growth(if there is such a thing) - denoted in green and also trees to frame the pond but not block the view(from the North.)
I also placed a floating dock in the middle which just might be floating over the geothermal pipe dump. Thinking of increasing depth there from 4 ft to 8 feet.
Levee is gonna be 450 ft long- probably pretty wide to accomodate the turns in it.
