Related to this subject, I have found on my new pond some of the banks are too flat. The contractor started cutting at the full pool staked waterline which is norm. I have an area where the natural grade is only about a 1/2 inch above pool. In this area about 60 yards long or so it stays muddy about 10 ft from the waters edge, Not enough to kill weeds but too wet to put the tractor on it to mow. So I have this strip that I can't maintain. I'm either going to have to build it up or cut the edge with a back hoe further back to higher grade to fix this issue.
