I had a very old pond the size of a lg swimming pool in west Texas that didn't have but a foot of water. I was told by the old farmer next door his sister almost drowned in it. I paid a company to dig it out deeper , and work on the catch. They made it about 1/8-1/4 Ac & it had a clay base . I'm told it will take about 2 years to properly silt in. They used a very lg bulldozer & dug it about 12 ft deep with high walls & a great catch. With our best rain I've never got more than 4 ft of water in it. It drys up pretty fast with minium rain in our dry summers. Do I still need to pack it down more or still wait for it to silt in ?

" Thats not a pond , that's a puddle"