Looks really good John F. Hopefully you can get the leak stopped in your refurbished pond. It cleaned up really nice around it.
Maybe we will make it down that way for a first hand look on a motorcycle trip this summer. We really enjoyed the ride on the Pig Trail.
Hopefully you can make that ride down here in the spring, before it gets too hot and humid to be pleasant riding.
Since the pond has filled back up, I have been doing a lot of investigating. There was a big bunch of large trumpet vines right at the base of the dam. I cut all of them down winter before last and kept them mowed closely last year. I think a lot of those trumpet vine roots that I cut go way back under the dam. Since those roots are dying, the ground behind the toe of the dam has become spongy and waterlogged. Hopefully, if it is those roots, they will continue to die off and be replaced by the clay in the soil. It's just seepage, but extensive seepage that amounts to a 5/8 inch loss per day when the water is as high as it is now (10 inches below the overland spillway). Still debating if Soilfloc would be worth trying again.
