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[Jay Woods <woodsjay@cox.net>]

Having built a couple of ponds and created a couple of large holes without 
building ponds, there are also other worthwhile questions. 

Do you have control over multiple sites where you can have the pond?

(example answer: I have flat ground, anywhere but in the basement.)

Where is your water table on your property?

(example answer: level with the river and 200 feet down.)

Do you have any hard rock geology near to the surface?

(example answer: there is limestone about 250 feet down.)

Do you have any draws or ravines especially down to hard rock?

(example answer: nope -- it is flat.)

Where and what is your source of water.

(example answer: rain water from the roof and street gutters.)
On Tuesday 28 September 2004 08:31 am, Claude William Genest wrote:
> How big a pond ? ( I just got through building my second one)..... One
> of the keys is that it not merely be a hole but that it have a variety
> of contours, ledges, depths etc.....another is that you have either
> clay or a liner, and another is that you have access to an existing
> pond's water so as to inoculate your own with the right
> bacteria/micoorganisms/plants...
>
> In terms of engineering per se, is it a pond or a dam ? Will it be fed
> by run off ? In this case yes, you will have to consider spill ways
> etc.  and it will require a substantially more involved email :-)
>
> Let us know,
>
> Claude
>
> On Monday, September 27, 2004, at 09:41 PM, Anne Erlandson wrote:
> > Does anyone have any recommendations for books on the intricacies of
> > building ponds?  My husband wants to get someone out with some sort of
> > digger and have him dig a hole and it seems to me that a little more
> > engineering might be advisable.
> >
> > Thanks!
> >
> > Anne in Seattle
> >
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