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I have a roughly 2 acre pond with a slough of overflow point and it has a a ravine type shape but it’s more smooth and I would love to use the area to create a habitat for critters that visit the pond and further benefit the wildlife of my property and the surrounding area!  Great herrins, raccoons, frogs and other critters visit the pond and I’d love to store the run off into the ground rather than it run off.  It looks like it was a nice habitat at one time but do to water run off and succession of the landscape it looks like this....
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Good morning Benjamin, I love your idea! I think it would be beautiful and welcomed by local wildlife. Do you have plans of how you want to make this happen?
 
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Benjamin said," I would love some suggestions on doing so !



Would berms and swales help?

Or maybe check dams and brush dams?

Here are some threads that might help:

https://permies.com/t/73485/start-swale-digging

https://permies.com/t/132797/swale

https://permies.com/t/51421/Creek-repair-brush-dams
 
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