Re: OT Digging a Pond

Posted by john in la on August 30, 2004 at 12:03:49 from (66.157.51.169):

In Reply to: OT Digging a Pond posted by Peanut on August 30, 2004 at 11:07:19:

I do not know where you live but will presume it is in the south and this is a dug pond on flat ground and not a levee pond.
1) you need to have the soil tested to see that it will hold water.
2) you need to dig it at a slope for easy exiting in case some one falls in but it needs to reach 4ft deep as soon as possible. This prevents weeds from growing.
3) you need to keep it in the 4-5ft range because any deeper and you may have oxygen depletion from water turn over in storms.
4) you need to think about where the water is coming from to fill pond. Water shed?? do you have enough land?? streams are a bad choice because they put in unwanted fish. What is this clean water source you have?? A Well ??
5) you need to adjust your input and output of water because too much will allow your nutrients to be depleted. You only want to replace lost water due to evaporation. I know this is hard to adjust but what I am saying is you do not want a stream running through the middle of your pond.
6) The size you have picked is about right since Bass need at least 1 acre to multiply.

I could go on and on but this should get you to thinking. Go to the LA. MISS. ag web sites and look up ponds. They have a bunch of ligature on recreational and farm ponds and read away as we are both very big into catfish farming. I think ARK. and ALA. have some info also.
I will link you to one HERE

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