Contact the county ag extension.

They generally help farmers build fire and or irrigation ponds all of the
time so they can give you some specs on it.

I dont think that wether the ground is dry or wet matters though. A backhoe
will take care of it either way.

The big issues will be

1- water inflow and out - if you dont have someway of keeping the pond
filled it will dry up in summer months.

2 - Seepage, for the 1st couple of years the pond will seep water until it
finally silts in.



tomatolord

wrote in message
. ..
In article , Anne Lurie
wrote:
Lisa,

Since you are talking about a fishing pond, dug with heavy equipment,
I'd
ask the *operators* of the equipment, as I think they would know best
the
optimal conditions for the equipment.

Hmmm.... I've been meaning to upgrade my teeny little water garden,
maybe
this will be the year to do it.

I agree Anne. Most times someone takes advantage of sloping land and
dams up the lower end. ONe also has to install a spillway and other
such things in the bottom so too much water would be a factor.

With all the environmental factors today you may also be required to
have a permit to even build one and have an engineer design it.

A contractor would be the source or someone in county government who is
in water and stream managment.

Someone in our church recently built one on their land west of Pittsboro
I will ask him.
Anne Lurie
NE Raleigh


"Lisa C." wrote in message
...


On Fri, 02 Apr 2004 13:22:31 GMT, wrote:

In article , Lisa C wrote:
In the do-it-yourself realm of things, how dry does it need to be
before you dig out a pond? I have been told that it pretty much has
to
be dry as a bone to keep from getting stuck - but I'm wondering what
that really means.

Are we talking a week with very little rain? A month?

How deep? Area (sqft or acres)?

Ohh. that would probably help, huh? I am talking more like a pond
that you would go fishing in - with a dam - not a small goldfish pond.
One that you would dig with heavy equipment.




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