That is a good picture angle and really shows the potential of what your pond could be compared to the previous pictures. Looks like to me by putting in a taller dam the area to be flooded would make a very nice pond indeed.
If it were in my area where we have an abundance of good clay (at one time a clay tile company, a ceramic clay pot manufacturer, and a clay brick manufacturer were all less than 10 miles from my house - the brick company (ACME) still is open) a person could just dig a core and create a properly compacted dam below your current road (dam of sorts) and flood the whole area including the old road. But where your have leaky soils, having the current "pond" looks like to me to be a hindrance rather than help. Looks like to me you will need to drain it and start over to get a properly lined and compacted bottom to the whole pond. Otherwise the old portion may well just go on leaking out the bottom.
I'm no expert. Just a farmer with some construction equipment. Mike Otto is. Listen to him and not me. Just my 2 cents from building a few farm ponds.
Last edited by snrub; 04/19/15 03:33 PM.
