We finished building our new pond just as the cold weather hit this year. In fact, it was snowing like mad the day we pulled the equipment out.

Everything was going very well, then suddenly we lost about 4 feet of water in the matter of a week or two.

One theory regarding the water loss is that the pond was filling over top of the frozen ground. The water loss was at the same time we had a warm spell for a week. Do you guys think that there is a chance that since the pond filled on frozen ground and then we had a thaw, the unsaturated soil sucked up the water?

The water level went up 6" last week.

Thanks.