Thanks for the reply! I just got into the study of conservation and wildlife/fisheries management. I wanna get into that feild because my passion for it is strong. I guess biology fits in their with ay type of fish conservation. somewhere but I'm not gonna be a biologist. Right now i'm starting at point which is the ecosystem,sphere,population control,and fixations and such, ALOT.. It's hard but it's worth it, i can see this site is gonna be a lot of help for a young buck like me. I'm always digging smalls ponds just to test different situatons out, thats just me.
Okay now to raising pond. I do have a ditch way with a 30 foot pipe that drains in to the feild for that purpose, it's opposite of the pond. I also have a draing area between the pond and septic just to be safe, where as if the tank got overflowed in a hurricane or heavy rain cold front all water would drain away from our ponds house 400 yards down. I'm good on that.
The watershed area is about 10 acres, see i built a heavy duty pvc 8 inch pipe drain with a stone like water fall deal that keeps the pond filled which is 200 foot from the deck of my pond. I made sure there could be no way or contamination. And plus like I said i'm into all that stuff, so sometimes i tend to do more than I should.
Also I dont know what this means, but our entire 20 acres is like spring heaven 4 springs feed the 50X50 pond and like 15 little springs keep my 1/2 acre filled. I wanna make my 1/2 acre a 2 or 3 one day but i dont know if i can cause you can see like creeks coming out the ground everywhere.
My soil is a combination of about 60 % clay 30% soil 10% sand. I dig down there is about 2 foot of very fertile black smooth topsoil, then i got a thick gummy clay, which if I dig too deep i hit the sand and springs.
Thanks again. Look forward to your reply
