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And he said, "I want to live as an honest man, to get all I deserve, and to give all I can, and to love a young woman whom I don't understand. Your Highness, your ways are very strange."
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Thekla McDaniels wrote:This is just a thought experiment for me, I have no experience. And I have zero understanding of the significance of catfish in this situation.
However the success and longevity of the āplug leak with rockā idea seems unlikely to succeed. I worry that the interface between the rock and fill that is the dam itself would be a prime spot for leakage, and the rock might channel water flow next to itself, making the leak more defined.
Seems like the thing to do is repair the hole while the water is below the hole, using the beaver method described above. If you have access to it at a reasonable price and the means to haul it, you might want to consider āroad baseā which is designed to compress into something solid. It has clay and various size aggregates in particular proportions so that when compressed, there are no voids. It could be tamped gently into the hole (like filling around a fence post, for which we always used the rounded end of a shovel handle)ā¦.. adding it in after putting a lattice of branches, or the stringy algae that grows in ponds.
If you canāt do a repair for awhile, have you thought about laying a tarp or a rug over the hole, to prevent the leak from carrying your material away and forever self enlarging?
Which gives rise to another idea!: if you have some fleece you could spare, it might be great plug material, slowing the flow of the leak, straining out clay and silt to slowly plug the leak the rest of the way.
Which makes me wonder, do you see a well defined leak hole, or are you just seeing the water as it exits?
I hope something works for you.
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Mary Combs wrote:I have a new pond that we need to seal at the bottom, so I did some research on bentonite. There are two types of bentonite - calcium bentonite (does not swell and can be easily found and is significantly cheaper than sodium bentonite, which does swell, is a specialist product (sold to landscapers and pond builders) and is significantly more expensive than calcium bentonite.
If I had a seep and knew where it was on the inside, Iād be tempted to pin a couple of burlap feed sacks over the area and try to work with sodium bentonite to slow the flow. A slow seep will tend to heal itself with the silt and clay that gets pulled into the seep.
Finally, from your pictures, you seem to have a lot of woody bushes or saplings started growing on your dam. Those will break down the integrity of your dam over time.
I would plant shallow rooted plants and cut out the woody stems. Clumping bamboo does a good job of holding soil and stabilising a surface. I would plant it on the outside slope of the dam.
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Carla Burke wrote:pour Mary - thank you for that! I didn't know that, about the bentonite (I tend to see the stuff primarily from the perspective of a herbalist & creator of hygiene and skin care products, lol).
As far as the top of the dam, if we can stop this leak, my hope is to clear it, for use as a safe path to the other side. The dam side is much closer to the house, and it would be great to have easy access from the deck. Foraging on that side of the pond would be much better, if the hike to & from it wasn't so prohibitive to my painful knees.
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Ralph Kettell wrote:Hi Carla,
To those who do not live in Arkansas or a similar "low to no permits required" local, it is a hard concept to grasp. The county that I live in requires almost no permitting. The downside is that sometimes your dams leak or any number of electrical or plumbing problems or... that i have run into since buying my current residence. All in all, I really like being left alone and dealing with the dam leaks.
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