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Advice for a Mississippi

Leaky Pond

One of our loyal Mississippi readers, Bobby

Stokes, called us the other day looking for

solutions to his leaky pond problem. He’d

already read articles about pond repair on

our website, and was thinking about rig-

ging up a tarp barrier to isolate an applica-

tion of bentonite.

We asked Editorial Director Hank Will

for his advice.

Have any other readers had successful

experiences with pond repair? Email us at

[email protected] and we’ll

share your advice with Bobby.

Bobby, it might be possible to source

a ton of bentonite clay and spread it or

suspend it along the dam face. It could

get pulled into the seep and plug it, and

might generally plug the bottom. I’ve seen

it work. But where I’ve seen it work best

is on a pond that had seeped dry before

the bentonite was spread and disced in,

and then cattle were run through to pack

it down.

The surefire option is to cut through

the dam, drain the pond, cut in a keyway,

and then pack clay into it to seal the dam

to the earth. Unless it’s seeping via root

channels in the dam or through a ledge

outcrop below the surface (and thereby

feeding a spring), I suspect there isn’t a

proper key for the dam. I’ve personally

repaired a dam by installing a completely

new key that doesn’t seep. The new in-

stallation and the repair each took about

four days of D-6 dozer time. — Hank Will

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