Question about ground water ponds. Is the water in the pond moving like an under water river, or once it fills it just stays in the pond? If it is moving then it is being replaced with water with no oxygen. Aeration makes this a null subject, but just quercous.
In my pond the water movement is obvious when digging stirring up mud. The areas where the water enters quickly becomes clear and the outlet will be muddy all the way to the edge. I have no idea how to quantify it in flow rate, etc, but seems pretty substantial at times. I will see what kind of summer temps I end up with, my test hole was quite cool (never saw higher than 60. If that is the case the trout will be fine, but might be too cool for the Warmouth to spawn. On another note I had the idea to try to map the area for the topography of the underlying clay then build a dam based on that even if it was not by the pond.( basically building a clay dam in the woods under ground to increase the height of the water table and then dig the pond anywhere within that water table that that worked.) For now I am happy with the water table changes which have been less that 2 ft difference from high to low.
