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Yep I'll keep everyone posted.
We ended up getting a light mist over the last few days so hard to tell what leakage rate really is as of yet. Still losing some shad and some more CNB. There is a slight oily film on the pond surface.

Ok, been monitoring the loss rate. So far the seepage has been reduced quite a bit. I was losing 5 to 6" daily now down to 5/8" to 3/4" per day. Still a bit high for me but a significant drop and within what the ESS 13 is supposed to do. I probably lost pretty much all of my shad and the bream lose is still adding up. Seems quite a few dropped to the bottom and are now floating up. Seems bream lose is around 40 various sizes. Will probably have some starving LMB unless I can get them something to eat. Any ideas there?

I doubt that they will actually starve but they will fail to thrive.

It is good to hear positive results, even if fish did croak. Perhaps leakage will continue to lessen? My next interest is to see how long the effect lasts.

With that note, our deep freeze did something amazing for me, it showed where a sizeable leak exists! It froze the ground so deep it forced water above ground where it froze into a ice mound. Right at the end of where the patch work was performed this fall. Now I have something to go on to get fixed other than the vague notion of just water loss.

Seems my CNB loss is much worse than I thought. They are floating up on a daily basis, pulled out about 80 plus now, floating up about 15 a day now. Level still holding at around 5/8" loss a day.

The CNB loss has finally come to a hault, all might be dead. Well over a hundred floated up and were removed. The pond had cleared up shortly after putting the ESS-13 in but has now returned to it's normal greenish color good or bad not sure but it supported a good fish population with that greenish color in the past.
It seems the leakage rate has further reduced to around 1/4" per day but weather has been all over the place and has some play on that so hard to get a good consistant read on the loss rate.

Fish loss or no fish loss, going from 5-6" daily to 1/4" inch daily is huge! Think of the cost of draining and re-packing if not re-coring and lining?

5-6" loss per day is not a pond, but a retention ditch. 1/4" per day is acceptable and makes a pond.

Heck, I am at 1/2" per day, and think the prospect of knocking that down to 1/4" or less would be great, and if the same ratio as you achieved evaporation would be greater than leakage!

I would guess the color changed as the ESS was giving the ecosystem a kick in the pants. Now that the ESS is lowering in quantity in the pond, the life is coming back. I would still set up an aquarium with pond water and drop in a fish or two to see when it is safe to re-stock. FHM are not a good indicator, they are tough and will live.

Good to hear both of you are making progress towards your leak probleIms.

Glad I bumped into this thread. My research found me looking at the Seepage Control web site and wondering about ESS13. I'm looking for a way to minimize seepage without draining and reworking the clay. So, if my pond isn't stocked yet, based on comments here, I am guessing that stocking later would not present a fish kill problem?