Seal a 1000 Square Foot Pond with Pigs - PEP BB animal.wood.pondpigs

We are going to be doing this this year. We have an arrangement with a local wildlife trust which are funding the earthworks, and will be doing a write up of the process. They’ll be doing soil sample, so photos before/during/after etc...

They are excited to do it, because as far as we can tell the process has never been formally studied and written up.

We expect that the end result will be a seasonal dewpond rather than a permanent pool. Our bedrock is chalk which is notorious for being permeable, to the extend that there is literally no surface water in our area. The only stream is a woewater, which only flows when the aquifers are full (approx every five years).

Dewponds are a common feature of old farms here, which fill up over the winter, or part fill in storms, and were used for watering livestock for part of the year.