The house is being situated on a pre-existing “turtle shell” with the land sloping off and away on all sides. 300 feet from the front side of the proposed house, there is a steep hill where most of the watershed runs. When it rains, the water coming off the hill is naturally diverted around the house site and we’ll capture it in the proposed pond below. I’d post the topo but it isn’t as descriptive as when you walk the property (doesn’t really show the turtle-shell). When we were purchasing our property, our agent told us he had actually been there 30 or so years ago when the river (which is our lowest property boundary) breached and this site was like an island surrounded by shallow water (just a few inches). Given that the river is 800 feet from this point and 30’ below according to the topo, it must’ve been quite the rain (the 100-year storm?). So, long story short, we would like to use any dirt left over to “bump up” the site and to reinforce that water shed path. ‘Was thinking about doing some type of silt containment where the 2 slopes meet – any thoughts?
We are hoping to find topsoil. Most of the property sits on “cemented caliche” and clay but we do have a 25 acre pasture that sits adjacent to the pond site and immediately above the river with actual soil (from the river breaching??) and the occasional odd pocket of real soil so hopefully….
Last edited by FullCircleTx; 08/28/11 01:31 PM.
