I am fairly certain that if my soil was any different (inferior), a roller would have been used.

Yes, there is a designed spillway area on the natural downflow side of the yard elevation. We plan on dovetailing that spillway area into a "dry creek bed" visual (buy functional) aesthetic that will help channel any overflow into the actual creekbed running perpendicular to that flow through our yard where the bridge is in the overhead photo to the left/north of the pond.

Thanks, Dan.

/c

Originally Posted By: djstauder
Clayton,
The pond seems to have come out well; thanks for the pictures.

As for compaction, my pond in Ms. was compacted with a bulldozer and it holds water well. My clay was pretty good as yours seems to be. I had done alot of research about pond building but one thing I hadn't seen was that best compaction was by sheeps foot roller. Even if I had, I may have "yielded" to the 30 yrs of pond building experience the builder had??

I didn't see a primary overflow; is it going to be a spillway?

dan

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