I bought a property a couple of years ago that has what used to be a nice 1/2 acre pond on it. (Old aerial mapquest image shows what it looked like when it was full.)

The pond was about half full when I purchased the property and started going down from there. It was pretty much gone last summer due to the drought, but after a 5" frog washer of a rain, it filled back up to roughly halfway again. That was about 6 months ago.

It's still way low even with the occasional 1-2" rainstorm.

This past week I did the bucket test... Put 6" of water in a bucket and a flag in 6" of pond water. When I went back to the property yesterday (6 days later of sun and 90 degree every day) it was down to 4" in the bucket and the flag was now in 4" of pond water.

So maybe a dumb question since it appears the evaporation rate was the same for the bucket and the pond... I just feel like the pond goes down awfully fast, especially here in north Texas when it gets to be 100 degrees every day...the pond will be gone in a couple of months if it doesn't rain.

Another thing I'm wondering is if it's the current lay of the land... The pond is 10' deep at it's deepest, but about half of it is only about a 1' deep, so I'm wondering if that's why it looks like it dries up so quickly when it starts going down. I have plans in the future of bowling it out more so that it is 3-4' minimum in the shallow parts (red lines in image).

That is if I can find a pond guy...seems to be impossible around these parts.

[Linked Image from kralikmedia.com]
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