TJ, Update. We had 2"+ rain earlier this week. My rain gauge is showing 4" for the month. It brought the water up another foot. So, now I'm up 18" from when I treated the pond. I'm up 2' from the lowest point, before the draught ended. I marked it at 24 1/4" below the bottom of the pipe. I will be back up on Aug 3rd and get a measurement then. I don't get a lot of wind on the pond, but I do lose a fair amount of water to evaporation. Earlier I had a 5 gallon bucket of water sitting on the dam. It lost about 1/2" of water to every inch the pond dropped. So my leak essentially doubled the evaporation rate. I'm hoping the increased hydraulic pressure from this extra 2' of water will help force the soilfloc into the leak..
9 yr old pond, 1 ac, 15' deep. RES, YP, GS, FHM (no longer), HBG (going away), SMB, and HSB (only one seen in 5 yrs) Restocked HSB (2020) Have seen one of these. I think that's about all I should put in my little pond. Otter attack in 2023
