Creating urban ponds

Does the "Earth Ponds" book address creating urban ponds? Or to ask another way ... can the information be scaled down and applied to 1/4 suburban lot?
I am just beginning to see the benefits of integrating ponds into the systems I am working with. Looking forward to learning more.

With all the benefits a pond offers, I can't see how it wouldn't be scalable.
Even if it offered no further benefits, I think it's worth it just to have a bunch of h2o stored on your property available to use however you wanted.

I'm with you, I hope to add 'micro ponds' to my urban permaculture. A discussion about them, creating without machinery, gleying, etc would rock. Most of what I've sorted through has been on the excavator scale of things, the rest is plastic pre-molded no thank you-ness.

Gleying would be a good method for small urban ponds. They would also go well with a grey water system.

Just some conjecture....maybe dig out the pond, fence it, add chickens and lots of grass clippings? This is my first exposure to gleying.

My approach (from current plans) is going to be to excavate to a nice red clay layer and then back fill with 2 inches of grass clippings. Then I'll leave it for a few days, water, leave, water and then hopefully fill. Gleying from grass has been discussed in this manner, anybody try and succeed/fail with it?

David Miller wrote:My approach (from current plans) is going to be to excavate to a nice red clay layer and then back fill with 2 inches of grass clippings. Then I'll leave it for a few days, water, leave, water and then hopefully fill. Gleying from grass has been discussed in this manner, anybody try and succeed/fail with it?

I dug a pond hole that I am trying to GROW grass in, this pond will fill in a good rainstorm, but will empty within a few days.
My hopes are that dead organic matter from grass, clover, mints,etc will make a kind of "gley".
If not, at least I will have a deep swale.