FR, I came up Sunday. I think it rained Saturday. Nothing since. The water is still right at the bottom of the pipe. So, it hasn’t dropped in three days. I generally just measure down to the water from the bottom of the pipe. I’ll be back Friday I’ll see if it’s dropped any. Possibly the soil has expanded back with saturation? I don’t know.
I’ve been on the tractor for the last three days. I just got down to the pond to jump in and cool off. Not sure of the temp, but 3” down it seems very cold. Ha! Reminds me of a Seinfeld episode. Haha!
Lol, some shrinkage is normal!
Speaking of, good clay shrinkage is what Im referring to, when it dries out it will shrink and you will have cracks, hopefully it has filled the pond up long enough, and kept adding a little to be able to get that clay swelled up to its full potential.
That crap gets tight as a drum when its dampened just right. Our old Missouri clay gets as tight as any of it around I suppose. its crazy the amount of ponds and lagoons I have messed with over the years, when you have a 40 yr old body of water and you get under the silt and scrape a few inches of clay off you are on solid, seems like almost dry, clay that you can barely tell its been under water for a week. you can literally drive a loaded dump truck across it.
