How to Make a Pond in a Natural Stream

Tim Matson provides a guide to building a natural stream pond for your property, including pond advice and building diagrams.
A Stream Pond That Carves [and Cleans] Itself
One summer I swam in a stream pond in the second curve of an oxbow in Abbott Brook. The flow had chiseled into the bank, sweeping out a 20-foot bowl, then doubled back where the roots of a poplar grove held the bank together. Rebounding sediment had settled into a sandy beach on the shallow bank. You could swim all day against the current and never get anywhere.