"Now that's a pond!" At four surface acres (43,560 square feet per acre) and 22 feet deep, what couldn't you do with such a body of water? Actually, in the Far East I've seen aquaculture "ponds" of several thousand hectares (each 10,000 square meters, 2.471 acres), so I guess calling Lake Helix a pond or even a puddle is okay. This ornamental basin does double duty in providing beautiful sights and sounds for its inhabitants, as well as a reservoir for irrigating common landscape grounds. Herein are my observations and suggestions for what this freshwater body is and what it might be through some cost-effective changes. Design:

I was there back in 1973 with Orville P. Ball & Associates (that's me, doing the labor), Lake Consultants, and KTA (Kawasaki, Theilacker and Associates, Landscape Architects, for M.H. Golden, developers (perhaps their first and last residential project) taking a long, hard look at an approximately ten acre "swamp" that was to be turned into a lake and 27 pads for new custom residences. The existing land/water was about a foot deep, completely covered in cattails and other amphibious weeds... and stinky. Where to get the soil to build up the surrounding homesites? Why not at the bottom of the proposed lake? So, this is what was done; big caterpillar tractors gouging out soil and rock, building up the perimeter twenty or so feet. And more planning went into the basin, filters ...

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