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Originally Posted by Chen rossii
One thing to keep in mind as far as your watershed goes is the quality of the water. If you are taking water from a water shed that has little vegetative matter on it you will most likely be getting very dirty water. Once these sediments end up in your pond they will take a long time to settle out thus reducing visibility in your pond. Depending if you are in an appropriated area or not it may be best to drill a well and fill the pond manually.
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I will be planting vegetation surrounding the pond that will be wide and thick enough to hopefully filter out most sediment that would otherwise be washing into the pond. There is cropfields surrounding the pond on 1 2/3 sides of the pond and I will be trying to convince my father (who farms it) to plant alfalfa in this field instead of the usual soybean/corn rotation.