Hope everyone had a good holiday!
I spent part of the time at the new land, after reading jsec's post again I decided to go investigate the watershed a little more. I had previously looked along the road to the north and did not see any culverts for the water to drain from north side of the road. However after looking a little closer after jsec's post I decided to go explore in the ditches. Turns out there are two culverts, they were both hidden by tall weeds. That drastically changes my watershed, I thought I had about 30 acres, turns out it is more like 75 to 80 acres. I outlined what I think it would be in pencil.
As this all occurred over the holiday I have not talked to the excavation guys yet to see what they say about it. I would like any input you guys would have for options. From what I understand this would by a very bad situation with a one acre pond and not accounting for the extra watershed. Some ideas I have considered 1) making the pond bigger--I would rather not as I eventually plan to sell this land as a 9 acre plot for someone to build on and I don't want the pond to take too much of the land 2)making a second pond to the west--I drew it on the new watershed map, I don't think I could get as sweet a deal on the second pond because the excavator would need to build more of a dam and would not get as much good top soil out of the deal 3)trying to divert the water coming from the east culvert around the pond to cut down the watershed, I think this would make it more like 50 acres. I am very interested in any input, Thanks!!
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