A local landowner wanted to have a pond. He rented a backhoe and dug a hole roughly 75' in diameter and about 25' in the center. He ran into a bit of rock outcropping that was too large to shift so he moved the pond over about ten feet from his original location. Once dug he had a construction supplier dump in a few cubic yards of builders sand. This was spread and roughly compacted. Then he rolled in a thick black plastic membrane. Took about a day and a half.

He runs a pump to aerate the water and limit algae growth. His kids and black lab swim in the water and it stays mostly full just from rain. If it gets too low he tops it up with well water.

It has been there for about fifteen years and it is still kicking.