You will be very lucky in my non-soil science opinion if that becomes a well sealed pond. A ground water, below ground spring seepage pond will often not stay full or near full during dry conditions of Jul-Aug-Sep. Your watershed will add lots of water during runoff producing rains. Hopefully your water level will stay deep enough that your current dock posts remain in water. The good thing about your special type of ground water pond is it is dug deep so if the water level is 3-6 ft below top of the banks you still have a pond with very good depth of 18-19ft.
They do make a vibratory drum compactor similar to compacting asphalt instead of a prong compactor. It might have done a better job than the tack hoe but probably the vibratory drum could not be driven on your steep side slopes.
Last edited by Bill Cody; 01/22/15 11:17 AM.
