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RE: Why I Am Glad We Live On A Hill
Dude, I see a potential for two excellent fish ponds with entry and exit points wired up as "filters".
A good old builders JCB earth mover, few bricks, mortar and a bit of concrete and you've got yourself something that some millionairs dream of!
WOW.... and mother nature gave you what is needed to make it happen!
What a vision.... a few weeping willows, which grow like crazy and a few other trees to make it look like a scene from a fairy tale story book!
Mate.... it's all there!
Sounds like a plan! Eventually, we do plan to dig it out deeper and add a gazebo and a few docks. The willows are already there. They just aren't the weeping variety. From experience, any willow tree grows like crazy. They are very hard to get rid of! The one issue we have with it would be all the runoff. It causes silt, which over time, will fill in your pond making it shallower. Another issue we will run into is sand. We know it's there. Just a matter of how far down. If we hit it while digging we would have to come up with plan b. Which will cost us more money.
I've seen people dig ponds and do the "swimming pool" type of thing, where one end is like only a few feet deep and the other end is like really deep, as deep as the machinery can make it.
So it in some way acts as a "water well" where no matter what happens there is water there.
Or the good old wind mill and hand water pump, like in the old western movies, so there is a natural flow of fresh water all the time!
Either way, you are using what mother nature has to offer to make yourselves something that some people could only wish for!