It could as it currently is, although starting out 9" more full it will have to drop 9 more inches than what it currently has this year.
When the new part fills I may take the backhoe and connect each end as deep as I can dig then it will always stay one pool. I'm not going to do it till we get some rain because if I did it right now it would lower the pond even more by a couple inches and I have fish on nests right now that are already really shallow.
Once we get just a little runoff, enough to fill the new part, then I could connect it without dropping the old part.
