Pond Boss Forums POND CONSTRUCTION Renovating a Pond or Lake? Natural Spring in bottom of Pond

Greetings!
I am cleaning out and enlarging a 20 yo run-off pond on property in Ky. The pond was .65 acres. It will be around 1 acre when complete.
During the process, we unearthed a natural spring in the bottom of the pond. The spring is putting out approximately 1 gallon every 5 minutes (.2 GPM)
What will happen if we just leave the spring alone.
Should I pipe the spring water to the top of the water surface?

Thanks for your feedback!

Are you sure it's a spring and not just the water table? How much pressure does the water have? When you dig a hole in the ground anywhere where I live, you will have water "spring" into the hole, this includes my pond. There were veins everywhere where water came in, from the water table I'm sure.

Fill the pond up, the pressure cause leakage Over the past two years though, this seems to have greatly slowed down to about nothing.

Thanks for the response!
I need to do a little homework on what a water table is.
Because of the location, I would assume any other veins would have also be exposed.
The cold clean water has been flowing for 9 days since unearthing the area. The bottom of the pond wouldn't completely dry out. We just assumed it was poor trenching to the dam.
The hole, or earth spigot, is about 2" in diameter.
I will go out tonight and try to get a more accurate "pressure" determination. I will also see if I can feed a small line into the hole to determine it's depth.

I have an image but I cant figure out how to post it.

Springs, due to water table changes, both give and take. I have the same thing in a small pond. As the trees suck the ground water, the level of the water drops. Mine is about gone and I found small dead bluegills a couple of days ago.

I would plug it with good clay.

I agree with Dave. That small of a water flow into the pond doesn't add much if anything, and the potential for it being a drain is too great.

I see this is an older post but I have a similar situation. We had a marshy area on our property and decided to dig it up...uncovering a natural spring. The flow is about 2 gal/min 120/hour. We ended up digging out a n area of 25' x 16' x 4-5' deep. Should the spring be piped to the top or is it ok on the bottom for filtration? There is a creek near by that I can run an overflow line to. Another question is : will there be enough volume of water for a few Bluegill and Koi? This year we will establish water plants and other vegetation for the pond. Once established we would like to introduce fish. Thanks

I don’t know. However, if it’s flowing, it seems to me that the pressure comes from above the water line. The problem with springs is that they can both give and take water depending on the pressure from above the water line.