OK... The sediment pond dams are finished except for pipes through them. On two, I'm just going with spillways. On three, I'd prefer pipes mainly to help ensure against / delay the possibility of other fish contaminating them - thinking that it would be harder for them to swim vertically up flow into pipe than up flow in spillway.

Two already have water and other fish in them - we didn't get them totally empty. Three are just dust at present. Of those three, I'd like to stock the smallest with just rosey red fatheads, one with fatheads and smallmouth, and one with fatheads and hybrid striped bass so I'd really like to keep other fish out.

On ebay, I noticed a Sullair Air Jackhammer. Is that similar enough to a Sullair Backfill Tamper MBT-6 that it could be used for that?

A building supply store has a gas powered plate compactor / jumping jack in stock that they would rent. $72 for the weekend. It has an 8 x 10 or 12" plate on bottom. The guy mentioned it was all one person wanted to handle.

I noticed JBL preferred the above backfill tamper. Purchasing that backfill tamper at $600 isn't out of line - especially if I knew I could get most of that back by reselling when done; but...

The ebay item auction ends tomorrow morning. I'm hoping to do the dams this weekend. Any advice?

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