Abstract: Site Investigation of Soil Permeability Pertaining to Restoration of an Historic Pond

Yellow bird farm is located south of Woodbury Tennessee near the transition between the Nashville Basin and the Eastern Highland rim. The setting where the pond was once located is a high saddle in the Bigby-Cannon Formation. Three trenches were dug with a backhoe to a depth of approximately eight feet. Soil samples taken at approximately sixty-cm intervals were analyzed for bulk density and particle size. The results were used to calculate a range of hydraulic conductivity for the area where the pond is to be restored. Based on our calculations the soil should support a water body even if excavated to an average depth of four feet. However, there is no data on the soil-bedrock interface and there could be pinnacles of limestone encountered by excavation which could affect the hydraulics.