Thanks for all the kind words about the property. We love it!
The guy who owned it before me, and about a year ago, cleared a lot of the trees around the pond to make pasture land for a couple of horses he had and a few sheep. The pond is fed by 2 very large streams and I'm told by 1 or 2 underground springs. There is a constant heavy flow of water that always pour over the overflow drain. This is only a guess, but I'm thinking with all the water that pours into the pond from the mountain streams, and the fact that when he cleared a ton of trees it's left dirt/red clay pasture land around the pond, maybe the run off when it rains makes it look like that? This part of the reason I'm wanting to raise the water level up 7 more feet. Right now the pond is only 10 feet deep in the deep end.
The positive of him creating the pasture areas is that now the entire pond is fenced in around the property line, so that helps keep random people from fishing in the pond all the time.
