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

Dirtguy,

If I understand you, it sounds like I've dug into the water table, not a spring. If the water table is high enough, than it will fill my lake. If it is lower, than my lake will never fill and only rise to the level of the water table.

There are two areas that I have surface water. This one at the bottom of my lake site, and another that is just below my shore line in an area that is very wet and extremly scary for my to drive my dozer. This other area was what led me to build the lake here in the first place. The bottom one was some thing that I found after removing the dirt above it.

My thinking, which very well may be flawed, is that since there is one area with surface water near the height of where I want the lake to be when full, that the water table must be at that level also.

To follow through with this thought, I'm thinking that I should dig some test holes above my shoreline on the side of the hill down fairly deep, but only as wide as the backhoe bucket. Then monitor them to see if they fill to the level I'm looking for.

Does this make sence? Am I being stuborn and ignoring good advice, or is there a chance I don't have to fill in the hole in the bottom of my lake?

Eddie