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Busting a pond dam

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This video documents a large-scale agricultural pond project where water from an existing, older pond is being transferred into a newly constructed pond. This is achieved by intentionally breaching the dam of the old pond using heavy machinery, allowing a massive volume of water to flow into the new basin. The process highlights the significant earthmoving required for such a project and the powerful forces involved in managing large bodies of water, rather than focusing on pond liner installation or waterproofing techniques.

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so guys a friend of mine is building an agricultural Pond this is something you will probably never see again in your entire life and the whole neighborhoods out here watching this is the new pond dam and this is the Old Pond we have busted the dam and are letting the water fill up the new Pond right now this is the dam unbelievable guys you'll never see this again probably in your entire life I know I'll never see it again in my life something really cool to watch this Pond's only dropped about a foot so far and there is tens of thousands of gallons of water coming through here amazing so watching the fish as they fall over into the new pond [Music]

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