Does the soil profile vary that much across your place? I ask because I have 4 ponds on my place in central Indiana and ran into the same general soil structure on all 4. For me, the biggest challenge was random sand veins located pretty deep running through my clay. They got interrupted by the dam core on the first 3 ponds (4th pond is still down 30" from full pool and has not gone through a Summer yet). No idea how much the soil cores might cost, but do you think your soil structure varies that much over relatively short distances? Sorry that I can't really help with your current plan on taking cores, but I wish you good luck!

Last edited by RAH; 01/04/22 05:54 AM.