My pond-clock is tickin' pretty loud now. The beach is still in the plan. Until further notice, I am going with the a wide, gradual built up berm perimeter, particularly along the bottom end of the beach zone (underwater). I will line it with the geotextile fabric Geo-tex thread and fill 'er up with cheap, generic sand. I expect the same quarry pit guy that trucked in the 1200+ tons of driveway gravel last year will treat me right (hope? :rolleyes: ).