Pond Boss Forums INTRO Questions & Observations Seal Spring in Pond Basin ? See post with pictures

Wivell...

Always be careful with creosote treated posts. Long sleeves, long pants, dust mask, and safety glasses. Creosote is a naturally occurring substance, but it is a big skin irritant.

Once was enough - I'll be wearing PPE if there is a next time.

Wivell:

Regarding a spring continuing to seep when 5 feet deep...if there's enough "head" it will happen. Just like the description of putting in the black pipe...that's the defining question.

I've got a tile from a farm field that runs 400 yards and dumps into one of my ponds. We buried it under about 3 feet of clay, and that's under 5 feet of water. After a recent storm, I couldn't figure out what was causing the brown cloud in the water, until I realized that's where the tile ended...

It had enough pressure (head) from the terrace in the field to boil up through the clay and water. This was an abnormally heavy rainfall...it doesn't happen often. Elevation to that point though, is probably only about 12 feet.

Thanks Matt.

I'm going to try the black pipe idea this weekend.
No time until then.

After reading more info on here the past fews days I'm concerned I need more clay on the sides of my pond. Some exposed areas are down to a mixture of sandstone and clay. In the dock area there's very little clay.

At this point the pond is still coming up. We getting near the 4 foot mark now - I'm pleasantly surprised since I have one groundwater source piped directly in at about 2 - 2.5 gpm and just a few very small seeps that I mentioned. We have had some rain but this spot gets very little runoff. Once once in 2 months have I seen any surface runoff - that storm caused some minor flooding in a local town.

I did notice a small seep of water below my dam. Can't say that it's coming from the pond though. The area below the dam seems to be a bit of a "wetland" - always kind of wet and lots of sediment/muck there. When building the dam the excavator built a core about 6 feet below the bottom of the pond and wide enough to run the small dozer into - probably about 8'. He had pretty good clay for this so I hope the seep is coming from elsewhere.

Guess I'll keep my fingers crossed and see what happens.

I could get some clay out of the nearly field if I need to, just not sure I would do it before the Fall.