Well I didn't do those all in one day but managed to get things done in a hurry. After my dam blow out I decided to do things right. Installed a monk drain with 36 inch culvert and placed it so that if my dam blows again ill only loose about 3 feet of water.
The dam width is about 35 feet on top with a 1 to 3 pitch on the water side and similar on the other side.
Clay type was amazing, got really lucky with maybe 3 different types of clay so the keyway, face and rest of it was done right and shaped with an excavator with tilting bucket.
I still have to finish a spillway but I'm taking my time on it as the 36 inch culvert will handle about 3 times what can ever find its way to it...or more.
The white oak boards have sealed up and are about 40 inches high, water doesn't even trickle out the culvert.
A mixture of vetch, rye, and Kentucky Bluegrass was seeded all around it and ots taken really well.
Lake is 13 feet deep for about 2 acres and 4 acres averages 7 to 8 feet.
Water drops right off around most of it but I did leave a few large areas of gravel for spawning beds.
When the dam blew I thought I lost everything but one small area survived and there were thousands of sunfish that survived and I put 200 brookies in there during the winter before the dam burst...and there were still lots left in a couple of feet of water in one section.
The water is topped up with mainly Springwater and some flow from upper ponds that I can control.
There are no bass in it yet, I put about 60 pounds of dace and fhm on it as well as some sucker minnows and creek chubs... they are about 10 inches long now.
I put 520, 3 to 5 inch brookies in as well as about 350 rainbows from 8 to 16 inches with most being around 14 inches. I watch them jumping every day.
Sunfish are spawning, bass fingerlings going in soon, just a few. The rainbows and brookies are for some fishing tourneys with my buds, when they get decimated I'll focus on bass and some walleye.
