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<blockquote data-quote="Brute 23" data-source="post: 1742397" data-attributes="member: 6291"><p>I have looked in to it multiple times for different reasons. Basically what my research has concluded is to have a high probability of it working you have to drain the entire pond, disk it in with the bank, and then pack your best dirt back over it. They even give you a process to fill the pond. Any run in from the side can erode the bentonite and be an area that will leak.</p><p></p><p>This was extremely expensive option and if I went through all that work I would just build it back right. </p><p></p><p>I have heard of people dumping sacks in to water pipes and what not and letting it work its way to the holes. Best case scenario was it held for a short time period then started leaking again. Same for just dumping them in from the side. </p><p></p><p>All options were low probability of working and it was very expensive to slightly increase the probability.</p><p></p><p>With one place I looked in to it at, I could drill a well, install a solar, and run water to it cheaper than I could put bentonite in. <img class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" alt="😄" title="Grinning face with smiling eyes :smile:" src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f604.png" data-shortname=":smile:" /></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Brute 23, post: 1742397, member: 6291"] I have looked in to it multiple times for different reasons. Basically what my research has concluded is to have a high probability of it working you have to drain the entire pond, disk it in with the bank, and then pack your best dirt back over it. They even give you a process to fill the pond. Any run in from the side can erode the bentonite and be an area that will leak. This was extremely expensive option and if I went through all that work I would just build it back right. I have heard of people dumping sacks in to water pipes and what not and letting it work its way to the holes. Best case scenario was it held for a short time period then started leaking again. Same for just dumping them in from the side. All options were low probability of working and it was very expensive to slightly increase the probability. With one place I looked in to it at, I could drill a well, install a solar, and run water to it cheaper than I could put bentonite in. 😄 [/QUOTE]
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