Hypothetical question on ‘blowing’ a swim hole in a creek

If anybody asks just say you were removing beaver dams. Pretty sure you can do that legally.

Acetylene and a Kentwood jug is certainly cheaper.

I agree, but can’t reach with backhoe. Bank too high

I would think any hole that wasn't "naturally" made would soon silt in after a few rains. I put naturally in parentheses because I know sometimes putting a berm up or strategically placing riprap will change up the flow and make it dig a swimming hole. But if someone only wanted a hole for a few summer months then maybe explosives would work.

It would probably take a good bit of explosives. I've used tannerite to see how big of a hole I could make and am always surprised at how much power it takes to even make a hole to fit something like a barrel in.


fwiw, this country started downhill when they stopped letting people buy sticks of dynamite at the feed store. change my mind.

My Paw Paw did that in the Tchefuncte River a very, very, long time ago.

3” trash pump and some PVC pipe you can scour out any hole you want

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3” trash pump and some PVC pipe you can scour out any hole you want

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This is the answer your looking for,,rent the pump that way you don’t have to worry about rebuilding it .

My old timer friends blew out a bunch of Solution holes in low spots in the Everglades.
Used the fill for Airplane Strips and got fish ponds and swimming holes for free.
Cap Rock with Solution holes all thru it.

When I was about 9 years old we had a swimming hole that was about 3 feet deep and probably 20 feet in diameter...just a natural "wide" spot on a small creek. It was very cold even in the dead of summer because it was shaded its entire length....really perfect for a swimming hole. We decided, as boys will do, to build a rock dam across that creek. There were LOADS of flat rocks about the size of a concrete block but about 1/2 of the height...theyd be fieldstone at Home Depot. We stacked those things acrosss that creek and abount 6 inches above the water. Of course it leaked as much as it didn't but with a couple of days that hole as 6 inches deeper and about 10 feet bigger in diameter...so we decided that if that worked we would stack them about 3 feet high. The water started rising slowly but again it leaked as much as it didn't.....then we have a couple of days where it rained about 10 inches and when we were able to go back we had built a sizeable swamp...that dam had overflowed a sizeable portion of the homeowners adjaceny pasture....the pool had gone from about 20 feet in diameter to about 100 feet long and about 40 feet across before it hit the cut banks where the water depth was about 3 feet deep and in the middle it was about 6....shortly after this the owner discovered our "dam" and brought a back hoe and scooped out what he could at the dam and laid it down stream and up on the downstream side of the dam. Stopped most of the leaking. He then removed a place just above a large piece of granite that allowed all of the water to leak to one side...and used the area beneath the dam as a road across the creek. By the next summer that side where the water ran was about 15 feet deep and about 15 feet wide with a shelf about 6 feet deep...he put up a rope swing and even a diving board...it was the PERFECT swimming hole...it can be seen on google maps to this day at 34.08956858421145, -84.8920353339019.