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I would say that these burrows were out of the pond when made because the pond dam had been breeched and what was pond was no longer. Now it will be pond once again. The pics were from my sons pond.

In my old pond it was the same way. I was actually excavating new area for pond that had been kind of on the shallow end where water ran in from the watershed and was only covered for short periods but remained moist for a good portion of the year.

I ran into these soil patterns again while excavating a new area near my daughters pond. The strange part was they did not appear till I had uncovered about 4 feet of dirt. Maybe they are not filled in crawdad holes at all? Then It occurred to me that this area is near a small seasonal creek and may have been in a wet area years ago. Those holes could have been made a hundred, five hundred or even a thousand years ago, filled in, then silt covered the area from seasonal floods.

Interesting stuff that comes from deep beneath the ground.