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It's roughly an acre that splits our property in half. On one side we have a drainage culvert from the neighbors and on the other a pond that is the neighbors. At some point we would like to dig a pond and connect it with the next door one but that is not in the budget right now.
I'm battling both low lying areas and a high water table so it will probably be August before I can get in an mow it. Since the water table is so high my thought of making a ditch to direct the flow instead of it spreading out like it does now will not work as well as I had hoped.
Our first goal is to get a shop built so we have some place to store equipment and vehicles and then the next item would be the pond.
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The idea of the pond that connects to the neighbor's is excellent.
Is it in desirable grasses, like fescue?
Or is it in weeds right now?
There is nothing wrong with letting the grass grow high, unless it's an undesirable grass.
In fact, that's one of the best ways to handle it. Let that wet spot grow high, and mow around it to the point that it starts to feel spongy.
The one thing about herbicides is that it's very difficult to find any that are not problematic in wetland areas.
You have to be really specific with the target, and it has to be a narrowly targeted application, in most cases, if it's anywhere near a wetland.
Now...maybe you don't care, but I'm telling you what the labels say (generally) and that if you can find a natural approach to it, since you plan to dig it out as a pond later anyway, you'll do well to choose that approach. Your neighbor may appreciate it too, since in many cases like yours, water is going to mix with water, either above ground or underground.
Of course, you may take a nuke it from orbit approach with your belief system, and if so, YMMV.