Well, it has only taken us three months, but we have finally got the 600 gallon water storage tank buried!  After two attempts at digging a hole for it by hand, when we were thwarted by massive rocks three feet down, we had Rodney and his machine give us some help and he dug another hole (which also has a large rock at the bottom) and then we had him bury it against a big bank, see photo above.
Below is a photo of the tank sitting beside the first hole we hand dug, which has a massive rock in the bottom so we could not go any deeper.

The good part is that during the digging of the holes for the tank, we came across three more springs!   We had to put pipes in so as not to bury them and this involved digging across the road to pipe the water into the stream.

One of the new springs flowed out of this small hole in the bottom of the tank hole.

Ditch I dug for pipe from new spring.

Pipe in ditch for spring water.

It took a fair bit of preparation to prepare the hole for the tank, which included making it wide enough and then level at the bottom.  We added washed stone to place the tank onto for drainage under and stability.

Leveling the ground under and making channels for springs.

Pondering my levels and channel!

Leveling the washed stone.

So finally, it was time to get the tank and put it down the hole!

So, that evening, Rodney, the digger driver came back and buried the tank for us.

After the work the digger did, I went back and groomed the bank that was now covering the tank and beyond.

The next post will describe how we captured the springs and piped the water flow from them into the spring box and into the 600 gallon tank – and beyond.