Hello,
I just moved into a new house with a pond in the backyard about 2 months ago. Around 3 weeks ago the water levels starting dropping drastically. It lost about 8-10 feet of water over the course of maybe five days. I wanted to fish and kayak here and now most of the fish that were in this pond are dead and nobody seems to care in my neighborhood.
It is a manmade pond and there are two smaller ponds that are supposed to feed into it. I went and checked and there is consistently water that is streaming into it.
I trekked through the woods and found a lot of stagnant water on the backside of the pond. I was looking for running water as to indicate where the leak is coming from, but I could only find a tiny portion that was moving ever so slowly. This lead me to believe the drain is at the bottom of the pond and is draining underground through the woods to this area.
There is an over flow pipe, I think that is where the drain is? But there is no moving water there either.
Can anyone help me figure out what to do? I know nothing about ponds and I was excited to be able to live here and stock it up with bass but if this doesn't get fixed I am worried the pond will dry up altogether.
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