Long time troller and now hopefully getting closer to pond owner. I'm looking for some thoughts on some land I'm currently looking at and would appreciate your input.
I am looking at some land that I think would have a nice pond site possibility. This is in VA and based on converstations with our local DEQ and Core of Engineers, I need to keep the stream interuption to 300ft or less and then there shouldn't be an issue getting the proper permits. My biggest concern is the slope is very gradual. Over 300 feet I'm only dropping 7ish feet vertical. If the dam is 250ish feet wide and the area behind is cut out down to the depth of the stream bed, the pond would be about and acre.
I haven't done any soil samples at this point but soil should be clay and looks like our red clay. If a dam is put across the stream, can it be dug down a couple feet to get closer to a 10 ft depth? Is that normally done with something like this? It's be nice to make a multi acre pond but it gets very cost prohibitive with the permitting.
I'm tyring to attach a topo and a photo of the stream. I marked in what I'm thinking for a pond site. The topo lines are 20ft increments.
