pond work days 4 and 5

On Thursday we continued with the pond excavation with the weather not looking great for Friday our aim was to get most of the soil out and lead to the storage area. We worked the excavator towards the edge of the pond to get it out once most of the soil was removed. We constantly had a water pump working to keep the water level down to help remove the soil below water level.

Once the excavator was out of the pond the remainder of the soil inside the pond was removed and the bank shaped.

Today a lot of rain fell making the area we were working in very wet. We only had to finish the pond area by removing some of the reeds from around the edge of the pond and finishing shaping the bank side. All soil that was dropped during transport was cleared, the area was marked as GUR and the dam holding water back in the 1st ditch was removed to allow water to refill the pond. Next week the pond bank will be turfed to prevent erosion from more rainfall and any turf damaged repaired.