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<blockquote data-quote="Craig-TX" data-source="post: 75487" data-attributes="member: 39"><p>Evaporation is certainly a considerable factor. Here in Texas the old stock tanks are wide and shallow. Of course many of them were dug with mules and slips. In the past couple of decades the prevailing way to dig them is as deep as possible for the very reason of minimizing evaporation. Before that the bulldozer operators still dug them the old way. I guess that's because the old operators started off driving teams and when they got dozers the old habits died hard. In this area the trickiest part of going deep is getting a good seal. It's not hard to find clay and that clay is spread out over the entire tank. It will hold water like a jug. But when you go too deep each layer of rock is liable to have a spring under it. Water flows in but it also flows out. Sometimes those spots will be hard to seal with clay. We have one tank that's six or seven years old and still won't hold water like it should. We've tried bentonite etc. Each year it gets better as the bottom silts in but it has been a disappointment.</p><p></p><p>Craig-TX</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Craig-TX, post: 75487, member: 39"] Evaporation is certainly a considerable factor. Here in Texas the old stock tanks are wide and shallow. Of course many of them were dug with mules and slips. In the past couple of decades the prevailing way to dig them is as deep as possible for the very reason of minimizing evaporation. Before that the bulldozer operators still dug them the old way. I guess that’s because the old operators started off driving teams and when they got dozers the old habits died hard. In this area the trickiest part of going deep is getting a good seal. It’s not hard to find clay and that clay is spread out over the entire tank. It will hold water like a jug. But when you go too deep each layer of rock is liable to have a spring under it. Water flows in but it also flows out. Sometimes those spots will be hard to seal with clay. We have one tank that’s six or seven years old and still won’t hold water like it should. We’ve tried bentonite etc. Each year it gets better as the bottom silts in but it has been a disappointment. Craig-TX [/QUOTE]
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