Here's a picture of my pond now.
The latest pump died after 10 days (bye, bye $400). The water level was completely covering the big rock below my little creek.
I've been losing about 1" per day. Most is probably evaporation, but I still think that there might be a leak, or possibly just effected by the water table. With all that said, I'm buying another pump and charging forward. The two pumps that I've ruined before were deep well pumps, now I'm going with what is called a "shallow well jet pump". It is not submergeable and should work. The smart thing to do would be to let the water slowly go down and down, until I might be able to find the leak, but unfortunately, that's just not the way "I roll" - I'm impatient and too old to change!!
