The pond has appeared to stabilize, as best I can tell, at around 1.5 acres. It has all types of trees which are pushed over as cover, as well as humps, island penninsulas. Stuff I did w' a small farm tractor while they were building the dam.
Come summer, I will be removing all trees as they are nothing but ground hog cover, not fish cover and burning them. I will be removing all the topsoil on the balance of the pond, down to clay. Then sealing up the ditch that is in the floor with clay. It will all be compacted. This stuff should have been done initially.
I'm still unsure as to whether the water 400' behind the dam was coming from, whether it was going around the dam, or through the dam, and finding a small seam say 300' behind the dam, and shooting over to the wet spot. As mentioned we did pipe a spring though the dam, and the pond has found it. Now I need to seal the pond, so it can't get there. The most likely place it has been going, is the natural ditch that runs right down the middle of the pond floor. We covered and compacted over it, as it is only two feet wide at the dam, and water holds there. Now I think we need to all the way up the hollow.
