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mark b(OK)

05-07-2003 21:47:17




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I have a question for all you pond builders I have a dam that I can't get to hold water the tatal length is 100 yards 15 feet high. It was built in a revine. It fills up about 2 feet high about half way across. I was told that (from the niebor) that when there is a downpour he had seen it fill up 3 or 4 feet only to leak out the next few days .Ive heard a few ideas one using Bentinite . ? is how to use that . Another idea was to fence it off and turn the hogs loose in there. Never can tell were it leaks from the other side of the Dam. any help would help thanks

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Little Dixie Okie

05-21-2003 20:44:25




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 Re: leaky pond in reply to mark b(OK), 05-07-2003 21:47:17  
The hog deal does work. Only thing is that the water level will have to go down below the spot in the dike where the leak is at so that the wallering hogs can have a chance to set the dam. If you have a clay dike which most of us have in Oklahoma,( cept for those panhandle leppies), the hogs have a good chance of stopping the leak. Get ya some of them 20 cent a pound sows, put one ring in their nose, so that they won't root plumb to China and ki yi stand back and watch it work.

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rhudson

05-20-2003 20:20:56




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 Re: leaky pond in reply to mark b(OK), 05-07-2003 21:47:17  
Hi Mark, i had some info from a state university on repairing leaky dams, but atlast, a computer crash has flushed all info. seems one fix other than benonite, was to use lime. one other was to dry dam, and retamp. sorry i could not be of more help. you might try a google to find site i had.



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Tractor Dan

05-20-2003 18:18:02




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 Re: leaky pond in reply to mark b(OK), 05-07-2003 21:47:17  
use food coloring to find the leak also they make a liner material with bentonite in it its cal benomate i think we put one of these liners in a pond it was a waste of the persons money think the enginer had stock in benomate its hard to say what the best solution is ive build alot of ponds and repaired a few other with out seeing it and materials used to build the dam hard to give a good answer

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steve inTX

05-09-2003 14:26:20




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 Re: leaky pond in reply to mark b(OK), 05-07-2003 21:47:17  
I have had a simular problem. Bentonite is a clay mined in Wyoming that is used in oil drilling, comes in 100 lbs. bags for about $10 a bag. Supposedly you can fill the area with water and scatter the Bentonite and it will seal things up. I was initially misinformed and tilled 1000lbs. into the dry pond and filled it and it didnot hold. The sure-fire way though is to fence in the area and feed hogs, cattle, goats, anything with hooves and it will seal.

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Stan

05-20-2003 10:18:49




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 Re: Re: leaky pond in reply to steve inTX, 05-09-2003 14:26:20  
Found your solutions to the leaky pond interesting. I've got one built in aDitch and it too fills in heavy rains then starts to go down.I've heard about Bentonite but being in the west central part of Illinois,where could I get large cheap quantities of bentonite? How do you spread it? Sure would like to stop the leaks. I'll take any ideas,thanks.



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