One key number is that one acre of water, one inch deep, is 27,000 gallons. Your 20 gpm pump, if correct, will produce 28,800 gallons every 24 hours. You will have some evaporation but also some rain. Let's not worry about that stuff. So you want to have 1/2 acre and the water table is about 3 ft. from the top of the ground and also the top of the pond. You also will lose about 2 to 3 ft. during irrigating season.

Will it drain out? Yes, some of it will because a spring/aquifer both gives and takes from the water table.


It's not about the fish. It's about the pond. Take care of the pond and the fish will be fine. PB subscriber since before it was in color.

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Boy, if I say "sic em", you'd better look for something to bite. Sam Shelley Rancher and Farmer Muleshoe Texas 1892-1985 RIP