A story from a fishing show I recently attended. A guy was telling me about how his pond is always full in the spring, then it slowly drops, through the summer. I asked about soil type, inlets, outlets, possible drains, etc. Nothing was ringing a bell, he said he'd checked on every possible explanation. Finally we got into the actual digging of the pond and he said "well I do remember seeing this reddish pipe, maybe the old clay kind about half way down the hole..."
so obviously thats the most reasonable answer in heavy clay soil with no other outlets (I'm assuming)", does anyone have a trick or advice to re-finding and plugging this pipe without major effort?