Todd, you've talked with an engineer or excavator?
That's where I'd start.
You planning on damming a stream or filling with a well?
If you're damming a stream you'd better make damn-sure you know where you stand in terms of water rights (pun intended
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Aeration is a must if there's no water flowing in and out... a friends pond which adjoins my property is aerated via a solar-powered system. Had lovely brown and rainbow trout in it... til' it froze deep enough and killed all the fish!
I'd think fifteen feet would be "ok" on a 1 acre pond though...
