Hello,
Well as I spend countless hours pouring over my potential pond site, day dreaming of endless enjoyment, reality reaches up and smacks me. My pondable area is pinched between a property line and a drainage swale. The upper part is a small 1' stream that drains a hay field. The stream then goes underground flowing through giant granite boulders for about 40', then dumps into a pretty large cut that feeds a 6' seasonal creek.
The part that "goes underground" still has dirt covering most of the boulders, but you can poke a stick through and see flowing water about 2' down.
So to finally get to my point, could a person put a layer of rip rap over those boulders and cover with a layer of soil? I also want to slightly alter the direction of that drainage with elevated soil and rip rap. I am trying to regain some real estate that would basically serve as a informal sitting area of loose flagstones.
Am I flirting with disaster?
Joe
