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I'm glad to see it back being full! What does the whole pond look like at full pool? Do you have pictures?

Probably best pic I have from today. Taken from spillway on east end of the dam. Water was really boiling out of the spillway pipe later in the day. Still no leak along side of the pipe.

Great news Jeff!!! Nice to see your water is so clear again also, now that the brown algae had died off...

Looking good!! That looks a lot different than it did with the big fire in the center!!!

Thanks guys. It's nice to see it full, and clear. I'd like it to stay this way, but who knows?
There'll be a drought starting next month, and who knows what, the month after.

This is the view from the old dirt road that runs down by the pond. It comes up to the bottom of the culvert running under the road.



How many tadpoles can a 1 ac pond support? I have millions..

Up at the pond again today. Still full. No water coming from the pipe.
I did find a small seep down near the pipe that is new.. I hated to see it because I think it may be part of the leak that was along the pipe. Not sure. It is pretty small.
Here's a pic. I threw down my keys for perspective.

1/4" of ice. Saw some big schools of FHM. Lots of tadpoles up bumping the ice.
View of pipe at full.

Great looking pond. Nice setting.

Thank you. We ran into a lot of rock mixed in with the clay during construction.. So I've ended up with a few leaks. So far they are small, and I'm not sure if water isn't leaving the pond and just not surfacing where I can see it. I'm measuring the water drop and time frame trying to see how serious it is. Fixed (or attempted to fix) the biggest known leak by adding bentonite around the entrance to the overflow pipe. So it seems to have worked. Two smaller seeps are apparent though.
I'll be trying Soil Floc when it warms up.
Jeff

Just a quick update. The pond was full ok 1/1. Here it is 5 weeks later, it's down 13". We've had very little rain. This represents a pretty big slow down in water loss. Just packing some bentonite around the pipe has really helped. I still have the seep that's coming out at the bottom of the dam, but it's very difficult to guess where it originates.

Here's what it looks like from the back of the dam. Water isn't running, but really looks like it's coming out at the base of the dam. If it's not moving, would dye work on trying to determine where it originates in the pond?