Week 2 was as fast paced as week 1 and equally exciting with the rain.
Even in the day's previous to the rain, the pond continued to fill up from the liquified layer about 30" below grade which we bailed out in an effort to minimize mud.
Staging of items is important to minimize track time. Having items where needed is handy but with so many lineal feet of edge and such big rocks and such a small machine, maintaining access was tricky.
Two Above: Materials being staged.
Below: The layout of the pond in advance with details for the edge
conditions greatly sped up the process and will be evident in the naturalization
of the finished project.
In order to maintain the wetland around the ponds, we moved the dirt to fill in low areas that were flooding and to control where the water goes.
The Nissan gets loaded with dirt.
Lots of raking and edge work are necessary prior to installing the liners. We really wanted to get the liner in as soon as possible to control the mud, both in the pond and around the edges.
To properly detail the liner, excavation had to happen 2-3' beyond our intended water edge.
Though we had to stop for rain, it was great to see the upper pond full, the stream running, our pool in the stream filling up and the delta formed by the water entering our big pond.
By dumping water from the bottom of the big pond into the wetland, we were also able to see our first water in the wetland.
Lot's of tractor work happened, the pond began to take shape and the upper pond's liner was installed.
Other site work included picking out rocks and ordering more materials, mining damaged sections of the forest to use in our restoration, ridding the property of thistles and holly and taking a couple days off because of the rain!
Above: View of the entire project from the outflow of the wetland.
Below: The trail made for mining materials, removal of holly and
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