Welcome RS - wish your initial post was on a better topic! Dave speaks with vast experience and it's your best course of action. If you are drawn down again this Summer best to pump the remaining water and rework the basin. Your contractor should be willing to help foot the bill, if not perform it for free. Can't imagine the cost of construction for your 7 acre lake, so sorry to hear about your problem. It's one many of us share...wish you could have found us prior to breaking ground - might have saved a ton of heartache. Keep us in the loop - we're all here to help with our collective experience.

Many men go fishing all of their lives without knowing that it is not fish they are after. ~ Henry David Thoreau

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