Without even reading your post, I can safely say, No.

"pixi" wrote in message
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Is old carpeting an adequate underliner when the soil is permeated with
broken shale?

I have been working on this !@#$ pond for almost a year now. Got the hole
dug last September via backhoe. We have groundhog shale, so even planting
a
shrub is backbreaking work. Then it started to rain and rain and rain and
I
had to quit for the winter.

So this year I have hired a young teenager to help. We have finally
gotten it leveled and the waterfall form is dug out. T oday I am going
to
angle the shelves so that stones won't fall into the pond.

Then out come the concrete blocks that I have been using for a pivot to
keep
the edges even. And that lucky teenager will get to shovel the loose
shale
out of the bottom.

Don't know if we'll get the terrace flagstoned this year or not. My
neighbor gave me tons of flagstone and I have to get it from his yard to
mine before he forgets he gave it to me and it disappears.

Well, I'm rambling. So will close.

I'm beginning to hope that the pond will be finished this year. Wish me
luck. Pixi