Pond Boss Forums POND CONSTRUCTION Soil questions Spring??? Yes or no.

I've been taking advantage of the dry weather to build a five acre fishing lake on my land. Mostly I'm digging down the bottom as deep as I can.

Along the edge of my shorline I have one strong spring at the surface. I built up the edges of it to hold in the water while digging. Further down the shoreline I found somehthing a little differet.

I've removed about six feet of soil and the next layer of clay is very dark and just like jello. Very squishy and jiggly.

The next day there was surface water, but not allot.

It was too scary for my dozer, so I used my backhoe to dig it out some. Most of the area I went down 4 feet.

In one corner I maxed out my digging depth and went 12 feet. The last 2 feet or so I hit gravel. It's small gravele, but lots of it. I don't have much rock on my land, but there are a few pockets of iron ore.

This hole is 12 feet deep and it had just a small amount of water at the bottome when I left.

Then next morning thre was 8 feet of water in that hole, but none in the rest of the 4 foot sections of the hole.

This morning, the water had come up another 6 inches and covererd the entrire floor.

My question is wether this is a spring or a drain?

If there's five acres of water, six feet deep on this, could it turn into a drain?

Is there a good chance that the spings are currently below normal levels due to the drought?

If somebody can explain how to post pics, I have some to share.

Eddie