Water Control Structures for Waterfowl Impoundments 

Thanks. It’s not working quite as good as yours. It needs a better foundation.

Gotcha, yes i had to pour a little concrete footer to prevent by-pass below and use sand bags and concrete drizzle to seal up the sides. You'll get it, just keep messing with it! Doesnt have to be perfect or look pretty @@fowlplayoutdoors68

Yeah that’s the idea.

Cool! I may try that in my big hole as it needs to be done. Beavers or something clog it up last season and I had to cut out big section. I'm thinking about going with 6" PVC.

Added 2 4in and worked well till this yr. Can take the volume cut out beaver dam and installing flash board to help out and using pipes as secondary

@@andersoncreekhomestead6378 What are you using for a flashboard riser? I can't justify the cost of what I am seeing on the market and need something simple and small.

Home made job like yellowdog247 has. Took his idea and love it

You're welcome, I hope it was helpful. Good luck with your impoundment. I would love to see the progress.

I thought about tongue and groove but they seem to be fine so far. Oh yeah, chain saw will be ready. Lol. Realistically, I may never need to take them out. For the last two years, the creek has not been high enough to flood the hole so the boards are mostly to hold water in. I drain it from the other end.

Is that where you put a tarp over and earthen berm? I considered that in the bean hole before I build my flashboard. The issue with using the flexible pipe in that location was because it kept eroding out. Also, the beavers took it out once as well.

Ron, I don't have any goldem millet right now. The only millet I have is the Japanese millet that has come back volunteer from what grew last year. But no, I have not sprayed any of it. I would like to find out if 2,4-D is safe to use on it though. I am pretty sure it is safe for rice and barnyard grass so I bet it is and will keep broadleaf weeds at bay.

@@fowlplayoutdoors68 ok, we’ll be planting soon but I think we won’t spray for any weeds, it’s our first year so we’ll see

If you can spray glyphosate (RoundUp) before you seed that will help unless it’s already a mud flat. I did spray some of that yesterday to get ready to plant millet. I thought you meant spraying actively growing millet.

@@fowlplayoutdoors68 I already sprayed to kill the grass but I thought you should spray once it’s up a bit to keep the weeds from returning but I guess not

Cool! Im not sure what’s save to spray on millet. But I grows fast and thick so chokes a lot of other stuff out.