Very nice! I can see the pictures now. I love your setting and your pond. The rocking chairs under the covered porch on your outbuilding have a great view.
Some pond building experts here may see the slope of your side walls and worry a bit about kids straying in and slipping down. If your water levels drop at some point you may consider using tools available to you (like the loader on the green tractor) and maybe consider adding to the perimeter of your pond a more gradual sloped area. This can be a safety feature but also the gradual shallow areas are what makes our pond such a magnet for kids. They walk around the pond for hours and in that first 2 feet of shallow water they can see the bottom so can see all kinds of creeping things, toad and frog eggs, insects, scuds, ghost shrimp, sometimes crayfish, dragonfly nymphs, etc. When they get too close and step in I know they have another 3 feet or so before the water goes over their boots and that usually gets them to stop and head back the other way.
Also the shallows are great for watching perch eggs and setting in minnow traps. Maybe once part of the pond has a shallow area with gradual slope you can fill it to that new level with your well to control the depth in that area? Just a thought. It looks like in the picture the high water mark is showing some grass covered with water on the edges so full pool might keep at least a small shelf of shallow around the edge.
The soil is interesting, there is some clay colored soil in the deeper layers. We'll have to see how your pond does. I don't see much in the way of rock though.
Last edited by canyoncreek; 03/29/16 02:19 PM.
