Very good info and appreciate it. I still have a lot to learn.

Yes, I believe it completely dried up. 2.5' is about the deepest it's been and if I had to guess it's been holding at least 12-18" for awhile. Until recently haven't had a ton of rain.

We are capturing run off pretty well where it runs across my property. I won't lie and pretend I know much about watershed, but when I input my address on mywaterway.epa.gov it says I'm part of a 12k acre watershed.

As far as slopes it was supposedly done correctly and fairly gentle but right now I don't know the exact slope.

The banks are still mostly just clay with some grass trying to spread. The rains have definitely cut channels all around. I have not actively planted anything and honestly that's due to my own ignorance on what I need and when. I have two shallow areas where I have installed pea gravel beds for future spawning areas and have a couple concrete pipes for habitat and a diffuser from windmill.

I've attached a recent photo if that's helpful. I actually also documented the entire process of the construction using a drone.

Best case scenario, I'm hoping it's my lack of patience and not an actual issue, however, expectation remains that it would have had more water by now.
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