Hey all, I'm sitting here missing church, with a sick child.

Bob, you've done 95% of what you can do for creating this wonderful site. I do intend to do a full story, when I succeed and have my dream, or sell, and no longer have the property and feel like talking about it.

Bruce, thank you for your offer to help and suggestion that I post photos. Hillbilly, thank you for your encouraging emails. Russ and Sunil, thank you also.

Russ, the dam is probably the best constructed dam in the county. It is geologist engineered with landfill quality clays, to bedrock. The NRCS was highly involved, on a county basis, and a regional manager even stopped in a time or two. They all are good people.

The problem, has to do with my post early on in this thread, the ominous spring. The lake has found it, and it is going plum around the dam. It will not go through or under the dam, due to the proper construction methods we used, high grade clays with a vibrotory roller keyed into rock. It has found a slit in the rock in my opinion, and bypassed the dam altogether. I have calculated I'm losing roughly 400 gallons per minute.

Thank you all for your kind words.

At this point, I'm gathering information, mainly looking to see at what point the lake stabilizes.

Again, I do intend to post a very long thread. The detail I intend to give will take me 8 - 10 hours to do, I think.

Thanks for your offers to help. Right now, I'm pretty sure, that thanks to this board, Bob Lusk, Steve Young, and others, I'm pretty sure I'm informed, even more than my environmentalist/geologist and the NRCS. I will share my success and if I don't succeed, hopefully I'll be able to discuss failure, one day in a detailed matter.

Thank you all fellow pondmeister friends.

On an encouraging note, I'm glad the water has been found below the dam. That tells me it, or a portion of it, running the topo or lay of the land. Around here, it could go into the oblivion. Also, on an encouraging note, we did not compact the entire floor, just an acre at the base, which held water all summer.

Robinson, PI (Politically Incorrect, of Course)