Consult before you put in that pond


January 13, 2013 at 5:30p.m.

Consult before you put in that pond

WASHINGTONVILLE

A free soil analysis could save a landowner contemplating pond construction plenty of money and headaches if it discourages the landowner from trying to dig a pond in a place that won’t hold water.

Stephen T. Prebonick, a state soil scientist, and Todd Miller, district technician with the Mahoning Soil and Water Conservation District, recently demonstrated this when they provided a two-hour, on-site consultation to the owner of a Green Township grain farm.

Read the full story in Monday’s Vindicator.