thanks for the flowers guys..
thanks to PB magazine and this forum for the info and guidance, thanks to my father who "pushed" me into building the first dam.
Thanks to my wife who kept up with me on her machine as I pushed the big dirt around on my machine.
I was gonna push all that stuff "down stream" and cover it up. I ended up pushing all that stuff "up stream", covering it up in small gulleys (10 feet wide, 10 feet deep and 50 feet long) that fed into this gulley. The tank has filled once this year. It took it about 3 weeks for the water to soak into the filled up gulleys. Had a lot of dirt setteling up stream. so far the tank has stayed at about 1/2 full all during the summer. I don't think I have a leak, just a lot of voids to fill as the dirt setteles into all the stuff I covered up.
I got a few catfish, blue gill, fatheads, and 3 hybred stripped bass for this 1/2 acre.
Maby I will have this ready by the time my grandson is old enough to help me harvest.
pray for rain
