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Hello, I'm new to this forum (officially) even though I've been viewing it for sometime. Here's my problem. The land I just bought is about 12 acres and I has a creek running through the bottom lowlands of it. I had planned on damming it up and making a pond. Thus my visit here. However, after surveying the area more in depth it is a really beautiful creek, it is just that it get dry by the end of the summer. So, if we wanted to leave it as a creek but have it full of water, could I dam up the creek but do so in a way that would allow it to be filled with water and then spill over and continue down the creek once my section is full. Thanks.
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ecollar either is possible depending on the size of the creek, soils beneath, watershed, topography, permited laws in your area etc.... Please give more details and or photo's so that the folks here can give you a better call on what you are dealing with or should do in your case.
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The less dirt you have to move, the cheaper it is to build. Damming the creek will be allot cheaper then digging a hole. ALOT CHEAPER.
The problems with daming the creek is being able to handle massive amounts of water from time to time. Imagine the worse, the triple it.
Liability, lawsuites and government involvement are also big concerns when daming a creek. Legally, it's much worse to mess with a creek then digging a hole.
Like rockytopper said, we need more information.
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It all depends (as usual). Good advice from Eddie and RT. Another angle. Even though the creek may be seasonal on you, does it dry totally upstream? If not, you will get the fish from upstream which may or may not be a good deal. It could create a tough to manage fish population.
It's not about the fish. It's about the pond. Take care of the pond and the fish will be fine. PB subscriber since before it was in color.
Without a sense of urgency, Nothing ever gets done.
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Pipe and re-rout the creek around or underneath the pond....put a y-valve in the pipe at the pond/stream inlet. Then use a water level/top off valve so you can automatically divert water back into the pond when needed. Use smooth walled pipe.
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we are daming a small stream that runs year round it is spring and rain fed with quite a bit of run off acreage. biggest problem i think you will face is silt so i would have a plan for that if you do go through with this
0.22 acre dam pond LMB, BG, and CC
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