Pond Boss Forums POND CONSTRUCTION Building a dam started on the forage pond

2D photos do no justice to a hole in the ground. It's deeper than what it looks like in the pic.

I got caught up on work this morning, so I knocked off early and went to digging.

It was a bit sketchy getting through the water-saturated layer of clay that was below the topsoil. That stuff was super punchy.
Once I got an escape lane dug through that stuff and down to hard clay I was able to make some decent progress

It will do as is, but I'd like to get another 18" out of the bottom to avoid having to build a berm on the low end..

With any kind of good luck I'll finish it tomorrow.