Our family has started the process of planning for a pond. I purchased the book by Bob Lusk perfect pond, read it twice and already talked to one contractor. The road bump is that I called the NRCS and they informed me they no longer deal with ponds and referred me to the Army corp of Engineer. This sounds like it just got expensive. The contractor said he had no problems not pulling a permit. The land is zoned agricultural and will be spring fed. The spring starts just up hill from us and dumps into the creek right past our property line. It will affect no one down stream from us. I feel i still need to get a permit but am real concerned working with the corp. Any advice or other's experiences working with the Corp? The pond will be less than an acre.