Pond Boss Forums INTRO Questions & Observations Dealing with erosion

If you can smooth that area of erosion before the next rainfall event, buy some geotech cloth and put it on top of that swale, then add your rock. Be sure to trench the cloth at the top of the slope so water can only flow across the top. If that the areas of erosion are too wide, then consider building a short terrace at the top of the slope parallel to the shoreline to force water to move in a wide path laterally, then guide it into the pond where you want it, across that geotech cloth. As soon as you can, vegetate disturbed soils with grasses or good groundcover. Once the pond fills, the type of erosion you have will cease.

There are also organic, straw-type erosion mats you can put in place, seed heavily, and minimize erosion.