Wow! I don't want a topic like the last guy, serious trouble. I have recently finished cleaning out a pond. To drain it I trenched through the dam and now it is time to repair it. I have roughened up the bottom of the dug out area and plan on packing it back with the soil I removed from it in increments, wetting it, driving over it with a tractor and so on. What I dug out was not clay per se but was heavy orange/red soil without any sand content. It was not leaking beforehand.

I was wondering if I would be better off going ahead and adding bentonite since it is a small area or just packing the soil back.???

Thoughts? Craig