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Curious;
We are having flooding rains.
How far does water wick into the sides/bottom of a water feature? I know that it theoretically never stops but has to stop somewhere. In some way water pressure/depth must play some part.
I have a small pond with a non flowing spring in the bottom. The spring takes water when we get into a drought. At this time, the small pond is staying full. That tells me that the ground water has again penetrated below 6 ft. Due to lack of shallow ground water, we lost a lot of trees during the drought and that pond was dry. As the trees suck water, the ground water table will certainly drop and the pond is a good indicator of that water table.
I have a spring fed creek that originates on a neighbors land. It flowed for years and then dried up during our long drought. It's now flowing again and I expect it will continue. The end of Summer will tell that answer.
My well is at/into a very small aquifer at 70 ft and only produces about 1/10 gpm. Can rain water really wick down that far? How long does that have to continue to make a difference?
Yep, curious.
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It'll be interesting to see what George and Mike Otto have to say.
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Algae
by Boondoggle - 06/14/24 10:07 PM
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