We dug some sample holes last night for the pond. It was really neat to see the virgin layers that were deposited by the glaciers. I live on wind blown clay hills. We found about 6 feet of topsoil, 3 feet of Fayette wind blown clay, 3 feet of extremely black muck 3 feet of marl then glacial till.
We need to move all the dirt to get down to the glacial till for building the dam. I will end up with 100-200 loads of good black dirt left over. I am going to pile that somewhere.
The pond will be about 2 acres.
The muck is what they make potting soil out of now.
The marl is calcium carbonate and clay mixed.
I am thinking of grinding the muck with the marl and spreading it on the fields.
We need to move all the dirt to get down to the glacial till for building the dam. I will end up with 100-200 loads of good black dirt left over. I am going to pile that somewhere.
The pond will be about 2 acres.
The muck is what they make potting soil out of now.
The marl is calcium carbonate and clay mixed.
I am thinking of grinding the muck with the marl and spreading it on the fields.
