[QUOTE]Originally posted by Russ:
[QB]Welcome to Pond Boss Tim!
I had a similar situation to yours last year with a small pond I had built. A new house going up behind me dumped a good portion of the front yard into my pond, lots of muddy water till they were able to get some ground cover established.
To quote a former president..."I feel your pain."
We just got the aftermath of tropical storm Cindy here (4&1/2" of rain in a few hours) and my pond water looks like a hog wallow. I've contacted my new neighbor about the problem and he's promised to add more bales of wheatstraw in the runoff areas coming into my pond. He planted rye grass and bermuda on the new dam and put bales of straw in the worst areas. The rye has died now, the bermuda seed must have washed away and the mud is above the bales he placed in his runoff areas. We've had an abnormal amount of rain this past month and I'm trying to be patient with this guy, being a new neighbor and all.
You mentioned that you had a desilting pond dug upstream of your 2 acre pond. Just curious, how far upstream from the 2 acre pond is this located, what is the size of this pond and how did you arrive at the size to build it?
The catch basin I had dug is approximately 200' above the main body of my pond. I put in a 3' coffer dam with a 12" corrugated pipe through it.
I didn't really give much fore thought to size, just told the track hoe operator to do what he thought was necessary. Ended up with an area about 20' wide and 30' long and as deep as his hoe could dig. Total cost was $800.00, including the pipe and borrowing clay for the coffer dam. The trackhoe operator is a long time family friend and I'm sure he cut me a break on his time. I did this project before my new neighbor bought the adjoining acreage, the catch basin worked great until he disturbed the soil upstream from me. It's now about 1/2 way silted in.
Thanks for your reply to my post,
Tim
