O.K. thanks for the help. I have a question though- without really knowing whats going on do you think that if I take my excavator Cat E110B 25,000lb and basically just dig blindly on the sides of my existing pond and put the spoils off to the side until digging the whole wall and then just push the spoils back in and packing it again with the stick and bucket that it would have a better chance of being leak free than just seeing if it stops on it own?
There are so many things that I have to modify on this pond to make it even a glimps of what alot of you have here that I could go on for a long time with my questions. ha,ha. I have been reading here for some time and have gathered allot of info from this place but still haven't transferred that into productive work.

To reiterate (sp?) who are some agencies that offer advise on these subjects (water management or wildlife something)