Lots of questions! First off if you go to my homepage you can download the Pond Construction Guide to help answer some of your questions. Visit some of your neighbors that have pond and find out what their rough cost were as it can vary from state to state. As far as cost my pond is only 1/3 of an acre took 56 hours of work and cost 2800.00 for the backhoe operator to dig it. All the finish work I did with my tractor a box blade and a dirt scoop. Smeone else who needed the fill paid another 1000.00 for the dirt to be hauled off. Hope that helps a little.

Bob