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Eastern NE KS | Building a pond dam with its core crossing a limestone shelf has both positive and negative results. The good news is this creates a handy, rocky 'beach' to open a hole in the ice. I use my mfwd 6430 to break the ice and then lift the ice chips with a plastic manure fork. The rocky bottom prevents tractor and cattle from sinking in deep mud.
This pond was built over 60 years ago and since its watershed is perennial pasture has never required a clean out.
The drainage tube raises ponded water into the limestone shelf before overflowing. The east side of the pond has a natural rocky 'shore' as the shelf was busted up during dam construction or by nature prior to construction. The west side stops at a craggy but mostly intact 3' wall made by the shelf. The dam is topped with soil and some limestone rubble.
The pond leaks from completely full to about 10" down in about 4 weeks then largely holds water. I always thought this leakage was from a passageway through the rocks on the western side.
There is a seep below the dam and about 1/4 of the way east of the western end of the dam. The seep exists after the pond fills but requires a long period of dry weather to dry up.
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Pond for stock water
