A pond is very much more than a hole in the ground that collects water. After calculating a rough pond excavation budget, now double the pond construction budget due to the cost of dredging and re-digging the pond in ten to twenty years or sooner due to a poor pond design. That is the usual fate of most ponds because the majority of ponds are dug in poor locations with no real design.
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Re: Cost to build 1 acre pond. A couple of years ago, I had a contractor work over a pond (we call them stock tanks here in Texas) and he charged me $5500... that included digging down a few feet to determine if there was enough clay to provide a good seal to prevent leaking.
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Re: Cost to build 1 acre pond. I had a quote 20 years ago when I bought this land for an acre and a half pond, if I remember it was 6 k, and he guaranteed it not to leak. Of course it was one of those statements from my ex wife.....
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Re: Cost to build 1 acre pond. When I had my 1.5 acre pond (10-12 feet deep) dug in 2000 it was $10K of aobut $15 total dirtwork and tree removal that was done. It will depend on how much dirt has to be moved, seems like he figure something like 95 cents per cubic yard of dirt moved.
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For every foot you dig over an acre of area, you will be moving 1,613.3 yards of dirt. 43,560 sq. ft. (1 acre) * 1 ft. deep /27 cubic ft. (1 cubic yd) = 1613.333 cubic yds. While the slope will make it less then an acre the farther you go down, it's a good rule of thumb to figure $1,600 per foot for your pond.
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To move or excavate dirt to build or dig a pond, you can expect to pay roughly $2.50 per cubic yard of material dug out of the pond. Figure $1.50 - 3.50 per yard of material depending on the difficulty of excavation and costs specific to local market conditions.
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Cost to build a 1/2 acre fish pond? in colorado, so the pond hasedto be deep enough that the fish dont die when the lake freezes over.
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Thanks deereman64 for your imput. I was thinking the beach (smaller slop) area on my sketch will be the entrance point in the hole. I'm looking for a cost of digging the pond, layout the contour, pushing the dirt 300ft and level it, just an opinion/your thoughts, nothing scientific. About hiting the water at that depth we'll see.
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Cost to build 1 acre pond. I was reading for some time this forum with a lot of passion and interest and I decided to post here some questions about our future project. I found lots of posts on this topic with a lot of interesting and good information. We purchased a 92 acres property in Ontario, Grey County area and our plan is to build a pond. Based on reading we decide the bigger is the better, so we are thinking at a 1 acre pond 12ft deep, with purpose of swimming/some fish, but generally enjoying the water. Below I attached the sketch created for this pond.
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This greatly reduces the volume of material to excavate. For instance, a one acre pond that averages ten feet deep will have a volume of 16,133 cubic yards. If you only need to excavate one-tenth of this to build a low dam, your excavation expense could drop from the $30,000 per acre range to the $8,000 range.
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cost to dig a pond
The cost to dig is $2.50 per cubic yard. The cost to dig a pond is $2.50 per cubic yard.