One thing you might want to do is get a boat and marked pvc pipe and check the depths all over the pond.
If it is silted in and only a few feet deep or if it still has plenty of depth might make a difference in what you decide to do.
Six acres is a nice size pond! If you have good depth, would it be possible to clean the current dam, then build a completely new dam with core trench behind it? (double the width of the existing dam). This is not a recomendation, but only a question and something to think about. Lay of the land, where the dirt would come from, etc all questions that might not make it work. But dams of old were often made only wide enough to hold the water back and might enhance the pond to have a much wider dam.
I had an old cow pond with narrow washed out dam. I cleaned it out, enlarged it, and made a nice wide dam I could drive on and mow the back side (it was too steep to mow safely originally).
If the pond is shallow and silted in, would be much better to fix that problem rather than just fixing the dam.
I'm definitely no expert, so only raising questions for you to ponder. Not making suggestions for you to do.
Last edited by snrub; 01/04/20 07:23 AM.
