The dam of my old farm pond that is right off my backyard is about ready to break through at any time (providing we get rain). It cannot be rebuilt where it is at due to water from a seperate watershed being right behind the dam. What we did was build a smaller dam that dams up one of the old fingers of the old pond and made that bigger and deeper. Most of it will be six-nine feet in depth. It was finished a couple of days ago, just need rain. The old pond had three areas of runoff going into it, two which were directly off cultivated fields which in turn caused muddy water. With the new pond those two run offs will not enter it, only the third run off which goes through about a 100 yards of grass buffer first. We also placed a small berm in the run off to slow the water runoff speed. My contractor also came in much under his estimate on cost so now I can afford to stock with larger fish. Will stock 4-6 inch bass and channel cat instead of fingerlings along with bluegill with flathead minnows for feed fish. Now I need lots of rain. Can't wait!
GuzziJohn
