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Dec 8th Spreading large pieces of shale around the pond for erosion control and discouraging Muskrats.
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Dec 8th
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Dec 8th Pumping out water to make sure the water does not cover where the rocks need to be placed.
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Dec 8th Structure is almost gone in the shallow area
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Dec 8th Just the top of O"Sullivan Rock is visable
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Dec 6th Another 2" of rain really brings the pond up
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Dec 6th Most structure covered.
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Dec 6th Water is really muddy due to run off over stripped soil
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Dec 6th Overflow is properly installed simple yet effective
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Dec 6th This box goes down and meets the pipe running through the dam
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Dec 6th A series of heavy adjustable aluminum baffles controls how high the water needs to rise before it falls over the exsisting baffles left in the hole. In this position the water would have to rise all the way to the top and the water be at its highest point the pond could hold. The tool in the well caseing is used to adjust the baffles.
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Dec 1st Nice dry day maybe tomorrow they will be able to continue progress
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Dec st Structure slowly sinking
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Nov 30th Another 4" deeper
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Nov 30th Nice dry days ahead
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Nov 30th About 6ft until full pool
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Nov 30th Whats left not filled will less then 6ft deep
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Nov 29th 3" of rain and things happen quickly
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Nov 29th All I can say is wow!
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Nov 29th Pond needs only 6ft to be at full pool
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Nov 29th Could be the last time you see the point
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Nov 29th Will not last long
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Nov 29th Contrast
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Nov 29th The deepest water in the pond is already 7ft
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Nov 29th Last sit on the rock pile
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Nov 27th After around .5 inches of rain the spring is in high gear
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Nov 27th Sloppy
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Nov 27th
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Nov 27th Some structure start to get covered
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Nov 26th Getting closer to done with the dam
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Nov 26th Water starts to fill the pond.
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Nov 26th Very exciting
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Nov 26th Placing the last marker buoy the end has a stainless ring on it to anchor my small
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Nov 26th Placing the rocks I brought back with me from Northern Canada hoping that some day the fishing is as good as O'sullivans Rainbow Lodge near Nakina Ontario
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Nov 25th Starting on closing the dam for water retaining
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Nov 25th Packing the clay.
Nov 20th Setting the last few pieces of structure
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Nov 19th Pond is neary finished with shaping
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Nov 19th Some depths perspective
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Nov 19th The point and rock piles
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Nov 19th Garrett and Grandpa grab some more rocks for the pond
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Nov 19th Pauls handling of tractor is percise
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Nov 19th Paul decides to help Larry with some dirt moving
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Nov 19th Nice rigs
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Nov 19th Paul backs out over the point
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Nov 19th Jenny wants to know where I want this piece of structure
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Nov 19th Getting some air
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Nov 18th rerouting the spring feed
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Nov 18th Ready to cut the new feed
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Nov 18th Digging hard and fast in good weather
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Nov17th Pond building continues after 2 day rain
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Nov 17th
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Nov 15th The Point continues to get more rocks
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Nov 15th Bluegill deep structure for ice-fishing about 12ft deep
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Nov 12th Skidsteer arrives
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Nov 12th
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Nov 12th Garrett dumps more rock structure
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Nov 12th about 4 loads
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Nov 12th This is when things go wrong. They were burning a pile of stumps and the wind really took off. The sparks carried about 100ft over bare land and started the woods on FIRE
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Nov 12th We put it out by working hard and fast. The leaves were really dry and the smoke made it hard to breath. But we worked togeather and stopped the flames.
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Nov 12th The problem was there were alot of fallen dead trees that caught on fire and wouldn't go out
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Nov 12th You guessed it America's best were called.
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Nov 12th We called them to make sure this thing would not catch fire again with a cornfield in the not so distant dirction of the wind we did not want to take any chances it was about half an acre that burned.
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Nov 12th Larry startes the liner and shale that will surround the pond.
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Nov 11th Big dozier moved
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Nov 11th Bigger hoe also moved in
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Nov 11th Structure on the point complete
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Nov11th Starting to place rock structure near BG spawning grounds
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Nov 11th Really cool 1971 Ford Cab-over
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Nov 11th The rear has been replaced with Mack air ride instead of the orginal springs
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Nov 10th Rain holds off again
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Nov 10th Continueing on the core construction
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Nov 10th Pond will be deep
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Nov 10th Adding more structure to my yet unnamed point
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Nov 10th Note marker buoy it is placed near the rock pile so that the point will be clearly found from the dock on one side and the flat casting rock built on the other. I put a small stainless ring on the end of the buoy to anchor the boat over the rock pile
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Nov 8th Diggin hard
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Nov 8th Placed the big rocks just at the end of the point
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Nov 8th Plan to make a bunch of small piles up on the top of the point and increasing the large one
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Nov 7th Driving the tractor back to the pond to do some work
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Nov 7th Pushed rocks into the pond where Brian Orr will place them with the hoe on the point.
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Nov 7th Placed some structure tonight. The rocks to be added to the end of the point are in the back ground
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Nov 5th Construction complete on the mini point it runs about 100ft off the dam with a sharp drop off on one side and a gentle slope on the other. Note the nice shadow created by the point.
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Nov 5th Sharp drop side
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Nov 5th Slow tapering side
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Nov 5th The point starts in about 11ft comes up to about 5ft and then back to 12ft
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Nov 5th Hoe master
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Nov 5th Garrett Kurtz Excavating at your service
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Nov 3rd The pond dries out enough to continue
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Nov 3rd Pins indicate new section to be dug
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Nov 3rd Dam core packed tightly
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Oct 25th Days are getting shorter
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This is what they call the dam core its where the dam will be in the new addition to the pond
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Oct 25th Packer
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Oct 25th Laying the pipe leaving the over flow
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Oct 24th Path to pond
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Oct 24th Path to pond
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Oct 24th Peak leaves
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Oct 24th Water flowing
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Oct 24th Water flowing into pond
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Oct 24th Wet pond
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Oct 18 Last nice day for awhile
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Oct 18th Second spawning area
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Oct 18th Depth around pond
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Oct 18th Deepest area is about 12ft
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Oct 17th Leaves took hit from 45 mph wind gusts
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Oct 17th Holmes County's rolling hills
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Oct 17th Beginning to see our house with the leaves thinning out
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Oct 17th found tile with water flowing fast below water line
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Found spring culvert around water level
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Oct 17th Solid flow
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Oct 15th Placing the first cover
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Oct 15th Need to bury them into the ground to secure them
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Oct 15th Old farm equipment near the old foundation
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Oct 15th DUNHAM 8' CULTIPACKER
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Oct 11th Here is an old foundation located near the pond where we are getting our sandstone for rock piles and support for the flat rocks placed just off the shore around the pond for casting platforms. This old house was moved in the late 40's because of its lack of access. Cars would have had a difficult time getting down the old drive. The place is a little creepy. We would love to clean it up getting rid of the briars and imagine life of old. There are a bunch of old farming equipment around and a spring sistern we have not located yet. It would be fun to have a metal detector back here.
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Oct 11th Sand stone foundation with trees growing out of it.
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Oct 11th Paul pulls out sandstone beween trees where house was moved in the late 40's
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Oct 11th Plenty of these for structure
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Oct 11th Spawning area there will be another larger area not yet constructed
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Oct11th Another view of spawning area
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Oct 11th Shaping the shore
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Oct 10th 7 days with no rain very helpful
Oct 10th Leaves are changing
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Oct 10th These are the rocks to be placed as casting platforms they are flat on the bottom. These will be casting distance of my structure
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Oct 10th Brought these rocks in with the trailer very heavy took my time they are flat on one side and will be used to step out on to fish
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Oct 10th Yes sir
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Oct 10th working on the sides
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Checking elevation
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Oct 9th
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Oct 8th Loading firewood
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Oct 8th
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A little soft though
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Marsh area passable
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Garrett loves construction stuff
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Muck is starting to fill swale
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Hills of Holmes County
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Oct 6th leaves just starting
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Shale base
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Driveway is very solid
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Oct 6th Another perfect day
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Larry is an operator not just someone who can run a hoe
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Oct 4th Loading the muck
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Oct 3 Piling the muck
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Sept 29th progress rain tomorrow
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Big snapper
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Gooy muck
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Loading the truck
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Long reach
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Sept 28th Starting the process of removing the muck
Drying out the marsh area on the south side of the pond with french style drain
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4th wettest year with 3 months to go
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Next week is hopefully dryer
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Sept 27th Tiling the marshy section to get the dump trucks through
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Spring still pushes water through pond.
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Thursday Sept 22 removed the willows at the end of the pond everything is very wet
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Another trackhoe brought in still to wet Tuesday September 20
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Note mud getting worse it will take some dry weather to dry this thing hopefully October will bring some nice days
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Moving in some shale to improve the drive way
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Checking out the grade
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Pushing off the top of the marshy area so that they can tile it to get dump trucks across
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Dozier removed all fence posts and a few trees to make room for dump trucks
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Small dozier arrives
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Map of area to be enlarged. Pond will be around 3 acres give or take
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The boy helps
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Bass of any size can't get around in there.
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This is a bluegil safety area will have 3 of these
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Building structure for the pond. Made 6 of these today. moss will cover the pvc pipe making cover that won't go away.
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First they will tile one end of the pond that is really marsh like due to that spring entering that cornor. They need to be able to drive their dump trucks through there.
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Its been raining every day for a week due to Tropical Storm Lee sitting here spinning its little thunder storm gifts a couple times a day
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They moved this in Sept 9th the web site says it can reach 47ft down thats deep. http://www.lbxco.com/Specs/3400_LF211.pdf
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First piece of equipment moves in Sept 5th
Dam was in bad shape if not for large springs entering the pond it would have been really low
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Drained summer of 2011 2 acres is the present size. It was built about 40 years ago. It was built before no-till farming was introduced and has massive silt from run off after spring plowing. Max depth was 8ft most was 4ft. These springs that feed the pond overflow and forms the Honeyrun Creek headwaters. From here it flows to the Killbuck River then into the Walhounding River then the Muskingum River then into the Ohio River then finally the Mississippi River.