Ok. Need some re-assurance cause i'm alittle concerned.
to refresh: I have just recently put in about a .6 acre pond in my back yard, a farm pond basically. Fed by natural springs that flow a ton usually, but with the current no rain are very slight, yet flowing.
I finished the pond and put the 90 in and the overflow pipe up right and water started pooling immediately. Then we got soaking crazy rains like 1 and 2" at a time. it filled a ton in the deep end and started creeping up in the shallow.
Since then we've had almost no rain. A sprinkle here and there and my water level is down about a foot+ on the overflow pipe, the deep end.
My pond has almost no shade and is basically in the direct sun all day, we have had little or no rain my springs are just trickeling.
On the back side of the damn is a decent flow of water, but could very well be from another spring, since they are everywhere.
My excavator buddy and local pond experts came over and told me that there is no way that is coming from the pond because the pond would be empty if it were, plus its looks like its not coming from the thinnest part of the dam and would have to come through a lot of earth, and its lower than the overflow pipe out the back, thus lower than bottom of my pond.
He also said that it takes a while for the earth to soak in for a new pond. I dug it all out and now its like a sponge while water sits there...
We are in a period of little or no rain, but i'm alittle concerned that every day water level is lower. Pond construction was down less than a month ago, probably July 15ish.
