Strmchzr,
Glad you like the homepage. A personal web site comes with the dsl service. It's not supposed to be for business, but I did build all the ponds, lakes, and wetlands on there. Need to add more....
If you don't mind you might let me know where you are.
I'm at Burlington and would like to invite you and others to stop by if you get the chance.
I'd say you would want to compact the berms, but not get to worried about it. Get the layer of dirt you are putting on to bond to the one below it, compact some and that should get it.
There is one wetland I did that does leak very slowly. It is seeping through where a small stream channel was, below the dike, probably a seam of gravel. You might watch for that.
