Pond Boss Forums POND CONSTRUCTION Selecting a site Burying Trees Under Pond

I had our pond bottom cleaned up pretty well when we dug it. I didn't like the idea of the stumps on the bottom, as we swim in it quite a bit.
We burned the tops, sold all the sale able timber, and buried the stumps. I didn't want a brush pile that close to the pond. (Just stumps) and I didn't want to haul all of them far enough away. We got $13K for the timber, it helped defer some of the cost of the pond. (Split with the builder, as he did all the work.)
The two pits where we buried the stumps have not settled. They are just grassy patches up in the woods off of both ends of the dam. (Quite a ways, from and above the dam.)