Scot,
At the risk of sounding negative I think due to your soil conditions you will be battling the water level issues on and off depending on rainfall forever. Like I said if it was me I'd set up an overflow at a much lower level where your pond is only about 1/10th acre and you can run well water in to keep it at the overflow level. Then stock it with trout and enjoy it. You'll just have to run your well about 6 months of the year. If your water table sucks up some of your pond water that's less overflow you'll have to worry about. If that is at your water table level you shouldn't have to run the well the rest of the year and and can keep the trout year around.
Another option is to put in a lined small trout pond(s) closer to the house, run the well into it and allow it to overflow to the former pond.
Last edited by Cecil Baird1; 02/19/11 08:36 PM.
