Thanks for the responses, we just got back from working down there today and i took some new pics, we have the pencock about 3 feet below the water line now and shes rising as much as we can stand, We had one bad flood a couple monthes ago and lost a few big sandbags off the top but quickly rebuilt it better stronger then before (the bionic dam)
After we open back up the lower pencock again we will take some flow and drop measurments,
We currently are letting the tail water spill over the damn and have beefed the spilloway up right much as you can see from the pics.
Yes we got all the material to fill the bags with out that revine and itts all top quality white clay. We have moved 1000s of buckets of clay by hand to fill the bags.
We are in central Virginia, very near Patrick Henrys Grave.
My grandfather built this pond with a bulldozer back in the 40s
We have 3 creeks feeding the pond and one comes from a spring on our land thats very bold.
Ill get yall more info soon. its all coming togather great.
The Beavers moved in this winter and help us out, by packing mud and silt around the base of our damn and have greatly helped fill a low hole in the damn.