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Significant Benefits to Farmers for Creating On Farm Ponds

There are many positive benefits for farmers as well as important practical environmental reasons to consider creating ponds on your farm. These benefits include improvements to biodiversity and water quality, flood mitigation potential downstream and provision of silt traps as well as the possibility to harness a water supply for livestock use on your farm.

See Example Pond Videos here on YouTube1 and YouTube2

Pond on elevated site for future use as a water supply for livestock on the land below