I live in Northeast ohio and have a little under 10 acres. We have picked the site we would like the pond and we have access to a little dozer and excavator. The pond we want is around 1/2 an acre. So today i went with a shovel and dug a few test holes and to my surprise was nothing but shale… I got about 1 and 1/2 foot down and it was nothing but shale. So i dug a few other test holes and same results. It just so happened the old farmer was out so i went and talked to him and he informed me that all the shale is from when they dug the road i live on. He is not sure how deep we would have to dig down before we hit soil again. My question is has anyone ran into this problem before? If so what did you do? Has anyone still dug a pond on shale and just had dirt trucked in? If so did it hold water good i will have a good runoff supply of water. Thank you and if anyone has any suggestions please help!