Pond Boss Forums POND CONSTRUCTION Building a dam Uh oh… how bad is it? New Pond Behind Old Pond

Here are my concerns….

1) it’s steep for the fish. The entire purpose of the project was for LMB and a healthy pond environment
2) is it properly packed down being that the walls are that steep. I don’t really see how it can be proper as is but I don’t know for sure. As you can see in the pictures there is a lot of loose dirt around.
3) at any part of the new pond it appears to me that if a cow steps into it… they are not getting out of it. Or even worse…. If a side by side went into the pond…. It would be a goner.


I spent a good amount of money to this point and I feel like I just burnt the money in a barrel. I’m thinking the only way to fix it is to dig a much bigger area around the existing pond on the upside of the new pond and then push the dirt from that end back to the new dam. I think it could be done, but it would likely cost me double what I was going to pay.

I have a pretty good video that shows the pond if there is a way I could post it.