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03-07-2005, 17:25

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Swimming Pond Design

I've dug a few large and deep ponds for clients here in SE Michigan (300,000 and 500,000 gallons). We have a big problem of "string algae", water bugs, and a species of cattail that wreaks havoc. The client stocked them with gold fish that get pretty big, Perch and a few Walleyes. A big stork makes them dinner and now they're gone. Canadian geese love the ponds. The client lets his kids swim in both ponds and they get ear infections due to all the poop in the water (ducks, fish, animals). I wouldn't recommend putting a pond any closer than 100' from a septic system leach field. I'm pretty sure that's why the larger pond stays cloudy all year round.

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Swimming Pond Design

Drive around and look for someone building a new house who needs backfill. Around here fill dirt (clay) is going for $2.50 per yard delivered in 20-24 yd loads. Something to keep in mind and I go through it a lot is, if you decide to put a sign at the road that says "FREE FILL DIRT" for some odd reason people who need that "FREE" fill dirt automatically assume you will truck it there for FREE. Like my dirt-hauling buddies who also get similar calls tell the caller: "Ma'am, yes, the dirt is free but the trucking isn't." Around here the going rate for dirt hauling is $75 an hour per truck regardless the size of truck---5yd or 40yd PLUS the loader time of $100-$150 per hour. The smaller the loader the longer it takes to fill the truck---and the clock's running!

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