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Brettski,

To me the amount of water outside the dam is enough to lower the pond when it is dry, which it has been until the first week of July. That is what got me going. That and a fish stocker that claims to be a pond expert told me it was leaking when he came to advise me on stocking.

The dam was created by excavating the perimeter and some bottom and bulilding a 20' dam across a small creek in a little natural valley. The base of the dam is probably 45' if I remember right. The builder had a diagram with all the dimensions and the different types of materials he used.

I did have someone from the county out but he was not a soil or pond expert per se. I am having trouble finding any one with extensive pond constrution knowledge.