Over 40 years or so, I have seen the pond get low a few times. The previous owner built a nice levee and added a drain pipe. I haven't seen it this low before, but I didn't know to check evaporation with a bucket, etc.
Up until a month ago, there was a 30 yard trail of green from a point above the pond down to the edge. I thought there might be a natural spring or something there bubbling up like crude oil on the Beverly Hillbillies. I dug some with my front end loader on the tractor in the highest spot and hit a 1 inch pvc pipe. But no water came gushing out. Turns out that the treatment system (septic) for the house really had 4 sprinkler heads installed instead of 3. Somehow, the 4th got buried and was contributing to this 'mysterious wet spot' on the property. I sealed the pipe instead of fixing the sprinkler head. Now, with no real rain recently, that spot is dry as can be and the grass is slowing down a lot.
I am not sure what to hope for here. Evaporation sucking up that much water? The wind can hit the surface pretty well. We have to water the outside plants every day and the grass in front of the house is pretty brown. The levee is my driveway and if I have to dig it up to fix a leak, then it almost has to be a one day job.
