Did you make your pond or was it there when you bought the house?
We might be moving to a 5 acre property and if our offer is accepted, I'd like to make about a 1 acre pond, but not sure how to go about it.

Do you get a bulldozer and make a levee around the pond perimeter and then fill it in with water? Is there more to it than that?

Any help would be appreciated.

Regards
Habibi

 

I know that I am not buckdropper, but...

First of all, you need to create a pond that will suit your terrain...do you have a natural water flow/source...do you want the pond to look natural or man-made?....do you want to stock this pond with fish?.....these are just a few details that need to be addressed prior to moving forward with construction of a pond.

BTW, you would use a bulldozer 90% of the time to "create" a pond.....

So, with that said...give us some details of your vision...pics if available

 

Habibi the pond has been there for about 30 years. I think the main thing is to find out what kind of soil you have there. Some top soil is great but clay is what you want. They use clay to line the sides and bottom of the pond. They can truck it in also so its not a huge deal. I just had a neighbor put in a pond here for about 4 grand and its dam near an acre maybe a bit more.

First thing is to find that perfect spot for the pond. Then find out if there is water near it like a spring or a shallow well. (I have 5 springs that feed the pond) You can also have it use runoff to keep it filled but it adds slit over time and in heavy rains. A dozer is the main piece of equipment used and yes they will build retaining earthen walls to hold the water in if you do not have a low spot to start from. Find a contractor or a farmer with a dozer that does that kind of excavating farmers build them all the time. If you want trout dig like 20 ft deep if you want large mouth bass 15 is good and perch or any thing else will live fine.

Let me know what you find out and i will help out any way i can. Take care bro and nice to hear from you!.

Jim

 

Habibi!! Glad to see you back. Sorry if you've been here a while and I missed it, I'm a little out of touch for now. Living at the folks and using dial-up internet .

We are in the process of buying a house on a piece of land too. Closing the deal on a 3br house on 12+ acres, hopefully by August 22nd. Anyhow, just wanted to say HI and welcome back!!

 

Thanks for the reply wstahlm, and pleased to meet you
You bring up many points I never considered and I'll have to think about
things in the next little while to see how and what exactly I'd like to do.

Buck & Rose, nice to see u2 again, hope you're well.

We put an offer on this place about 13 miles north of the city.
It's very rural and quiet and we fell in love with the property as soon
as we saw it.
The offer was accepted but we have to sell our current house first, and
an offer from another couple was also accepted, they have to sell their house too.

First one to sell wins!

It's a 1500 sf elevated bungalow on 5 acres (ICF Basement) and the neighbors are farms on either side.
The house we're selling is worth quite a bit more than this place, so
we'll have amply leftover for a inground pool, and if I can make it happen, a pond would
be fantastic.

A friend of mine who'se an expert in every subject imagineable (we all have a friend like this don't we?)
Please don't tell me I'm the only one, HA!

Anyway, my expert friend advised against putting a pond in, he said it would just
turn into a giant sesspool(sp) and attract all sorts of snakes and bugs.

I hope this is not the case, and I'm sure a few of you can elaborate.

Here's a shot of the front:


Back:


The view from the "morning room" - the little nook thingy off the kitchen:

The second tree line is the edge of the property, so I was thinking somewhere
out there in the clearing.


Anyways, I'm going to research a bit more and hopefully our place will
sell so this becomes a reality. "keeping fingers crossed"

Regards
Habibi

 

When you talk to the so called expert PUNCH him!!! J/K. My pond is as clear as can be, it is spring fed and then overflows on the backside so the water never get stagnant, cesspool whatever. make it deep mine is 18 feet in the center and i have never had any issues with it. I do little maintenance to it like keep the grass cut short and thats about it its a simple thing and so nice to have. It attracts much wildlife, deer,bear birds of all sorts, and smaller animals come to drink. I have many lg bass in there also some up to 5 pounds and also some grass carp that tip in at over 20 lbs (they keep the weeds in check). So you go ahead and put in that pond and you will never regret it. We swim in it all the time i made a beach of sorts at one end with 55 tons of sand and well its nice and cool and no stinking chlorine to deal with. Just do it right and you will be impressed try pondboss.com

http://www.pondboss.com/ubb/ultimate...c;f=1;t=000103

 

be sure to clear it with your various government agencies first; it would suck to pay to build it, then have to pay to remove it again plus cover hefty fines. This is something your local and state authorities will insist on having a say in.

 

This is OT but I know some of you guys live in the country.

Is 5 GPM from the well enough flow rate?
That's what the well test says and I've heard conflicting reports that 5GPM might not be enough. (2 of us and 2 bathrooms)

What do you guys think>? Is this a cause for concern?

 

this will help linky

Good to see you habibi