As usual, I am now confused grin (and sorry to hack this thread here Bill but I think it will be good for you original post)

Please help ESSUP! If the water table is "normally" at, for example, 24" below the top soil. If I dug a hole in that spot that was 48" deep I would have a pool of water that was 24". Now if I dug that hole 96" deep I would have a pool of water at 72". By digging the pond deeper I would have a deeper pool of water.

Isn't it a relative scale? So a drought happens and the water table falls to 48" below the top soil. A 48" deep pond has no pool while a 96" deep pond has a 48" pool. Where does the pressure on the pond bottom factor into the equation for a ground water dug out pond? Thanks and sorry again if this detracts from you post Bill!


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