Or is there a lot more to it than digging a hole and letting it fill up?
Thanks!
That's a 2 part question (or at least a 2 part answer to that question).
Digging the hole is the easy part. Letting it fill back up is the hard part. There's a LOT of dirt diggers out there, very few pond builders. I'll bet 40% of the poeple that visit this site do so because their ponds either won't hold water, or did at one time and now don't. Another 40% has a weed or algae problem, and other 20% is all over the board.
Before you start talking to dirt movers, buy the book "Perfect Pond - Want One?" and read it. That'll help you determine if the dirt guys know what they are doing or not.
There's all sorts of things to consider. Amount of watershed, pong bank slopes, soil type, etc., etc. We can furnish a lot of help. It's more expensive to re-do a leaky pond than it is to do it right the first time.
