So I had a little setback...

This is what happens when you lock in the first 25% of the line with the proper grade...start running out of daylight and you put temporary sand plugs to brace every section (10' apart give or take a foot) to keep the proper grade which had sand underneath around and on top for about 8" thick.
Then you get rain for two straight days preventing you from doing anything but staring in disbelief. while also performing an exercise in futility of trying to pump out your ditch with your little 1/3 HP pump.
So let's see if you all can figure out what happened.
Here's a hint: it has to do with Archimedes principle dealing with buoyancy and the inherent properties of sand.
Guess my lump of coal came early this year. Silver lining at least the water level in the ponds is coming up some

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