TM Consulting Tim Matson consulting, Earth Ponds Once again we have the honor and privilege to speak to an author and consultant, better yet you’ll learn what he does and asks during his consultation. We’ve selected a subscriber who sent in pictures and questions and asked our special guest these questions. Be sure to go [...]

OBX Realty Our featured guest this week really does not have much to do with pond building, but rather building a way of life and making your dreams come true in purchasing a vacation or an investment home on the Outer Banks of North Carolina. The short video in the last post was just a [...]

The Big Pond I want to share with you what I believe was the turning point to finally getting the thumbs up from my honey to build a farm pond on the property. I had tried for years to get the ok for a pond but always shot down because it would turn to green [...]

From the last blog post we saw water flow over a dam, yep it still stands. When we got home from shopping that morning I went straight to the pond to see how full it had gotten. The video is at the end of the post. Here’s the deal if the rain fall is 1″ [...]

Below is a video showing a couple retention ponds for storm water control. Not too bad an idea. What happens as we expand stores, shopping malls and business parks is we create an area that sheds water like running off a ducks back. There is no chance the storm water can penetrate the earth as [...]

Wow we have covered a lot of ground and moved it too. We left off finishing the pond with the dozer pushing out the shape and depth of the pond. Building up the dam along with getting the sides up to grade. Remember the minimum width around the pond at grade should be 8′, wider [...]

Building a farm pond with out using a pond liner. Brings up a few points to take note of. Not having a pond liner means we have enough clay content in the ground to hold the water. There are a couple issues that do come up. First is the action of the pond, waves, and [...]

Still running the dozer at What Pond, The most important thing to keep in mind is getting the pond done properly and in a timely manner. Having a rain storm for three days is not good once the depth is being pushed out. Either waiting for it to dry or pumping it out will cost [...]

Now that the top soil is out of the way we can get down to business. Starting at the dam area we need to cut in a core trench. The core trench can made with the dozer or 2-3 trenches with a backhoe. What is the core trench ? The trench serves two purposes, kind [...]