Bob,

The ditch is currently the only area that has some water in it. I was thinking about taking our dozer and pushing some dirt in it after we put out the bentonite to help give it some type of a filter before it reached the bentonite. I don't know that just pushing dirt in the ditch will do any good without fully draining it and compacting it with a sheeps foot/vibratory tamp. I would like to keep the ditch though because it would provide a lot of structure for fishing if we could ever get it to hold water. I was thinking about maybe filling the ditch in halfway which is about 8' deep on average now. I know that I would lose some fish but hopefully not just totally wipe them out.

Our well contractor got the well installed and it wasn't putting out the volume that they claimed. They are coming tomorrow to replace the motor with a larger one because of how deep they had to dig the well. Hopefully between this and the bentonite I will be able to maintain some sort of a fairly level water pool.

-lee-