I started making what my wife and I refer to as "Mongo Ponds" right after the Pond Boss I or II conference.
Popular PB Conference presenter, Sir Dave "Mongo" Sefton, presented some of the things he was doing. As soon as we got home from that conference, I hopped on my backhoe and started digging Mongo Ponds.
Most are 20 to 30 feet in maximum width and or length, and less than 4-feet deep. One got expanded to about 1/3 acre and about seven feet deep. It is my experimental pond.
The other micro ponds serve a number of purposes. They are home to minnows, frogs and amphibians of all kinds, and they provide forage and water for a lot of woodland critters. Best of all, they make great settlement ponds for debris and other stuff. One of the smallest, about 4 x 15 feet, is a significant water cleanup and debris trap area. It is filled with cattails that take in a lot of undesirables. I keep it under control with the backhoe and a tractor landscape rake.
