How to Build a Farm Pond Step by Step - Easy to Follow Step by Step Guide for Planning, Digging, Aeration, Adding Fish & Planting Grass by Darrell Rhoades

Author:Darrell Rhoades [Rhoades, Darrell]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2014-01-19T23:00:00+00:00

The steepest for any pond would be 3 to 1 = walking 3 feet into the pond you go down 1 foot. But the steeper the sides are will allow more erosion to take place and vegetation growth. Just a quick side note on plants, some species can grow from 9’ deep even up to 20’ the steeper side help to slow down the major nuisance weeds.

Here’s a video demo on measuring Grade. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WyUjS93ylXc

This brings up why we want 3 or 4 to 1 on the outside of the dam, even 5, 6, 7 or8 to one would be even better. A couple reasons for this.

The farther the dam goes away from the pond the more fill is placed, holding back all the water pressure of the pond. The next part is to make it easier to mow. Yes mow. I thought that building a pond would help to cut down the mowing, it kind of did, but now that is the first thing I mow and the reduction of mowing area is how big the pond is, should of went bigger. The reason mowing around the pond is to keep unwanted critters out of pond like snakes, or from digging into the dam like groundhogs. Even muskrats will do major damage to the dam.

Not to confuse you but there is good and bad about mowing the pond. The dam should always be mowed, but around the pond, it could be let go to nature to help slow nutrient loading and keeping geese out, then just mow an area for viewing and getting in and out of the pond.

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