Has anyone built a pond in your garden

[marlin]

I put in a pond that is about fifty by forty five feet. It is shallow at one end and over your head at the other, maybe twelve to fifteen feet deep. I populated it with golfish, sword tails, gobis, guppies and turtle and looking for ducks now. (anybody got some weed eating ducks?) The pond was dug out with a back hoe and EPDM is the liner with a shade cloth over it to protect it from UV til it is full. The breeze stirs up the water enough to keep pushing the hyacinth around. I figure to pump out the algae and onto my garden once in a while or simply dredge with buckets.

marlin