I've had the well on a few days now and the water is rising really good. I still have a ways to go to cover our construction area but since my last post I think I may run the well untill the water is about 2 feet deep over the entire sand pocket area. I asked the contractor how deep that particular track hoe would dig and he said around 32 deep and we dug about 20 feet in some places around the sand pocket. The area directly across from this is where I suspected most of the sand to be, but as I mentioned above I was wrong. We hit some fantastic red clay about 2 feet down and we stayed in it as deep as we dug. Before treated the sand pocket area first and the contractor wanted to dig really deep in case there was a sand pocket directly across (where I just described) and that it might drop indefinitely and theoretically the water could run back into the hill, drop, and follow a sand vein under the cove which most likely would have connected with the sand pocket we found. SO...he made the core ditch especially deep at the sand pocket to solve both problems --the sand pocket itself and the possibility of the water flowing under the cove in the same sand pocket. Thankfully we didn't find sand on the opposite side, but we should be double covered where we found the problem.
I think I will raise the lake about 2 feet over this whole area. We plated it with clay about 2 feet thick in a very wide band and went probaly 150 feet or more down the cove tikll we hit the area where the shallows are when it's full. I think I'll turn the well off here and punch a yardstick into the mud and see if there is any significant seekage. If there is I can drop it back down and maybe plate some more in the other cove if necessary. This will save from filling it full and then waiting till late July to see what it does.
I've got a ton of pictures but I have more to make, so I'm going to wait and do it all at the same time.
Thanks again.
