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Bill:

With my sand pond, the water level is completely dependent on the ground water level. It was 9' low last December, and I pumped 25 gpm into it 24/7 until we had Spring rains that flooded the timber behind the pond, with water standing there that was about 6" deep. The pond started going over the overflow so I shut off the well. Now my pond is about 3' low and I am pumping water back into it, but it's at best a stop gap thing. When the farmer runs his center pivot that is about 3/4 mile away the pond will drop 1" per day. My pond leaks 18 gpm. at the level that it is now.

smorris might have a leak in the upper 4' of the pond, but it also could be where the sand vein was and the suction crew removed part of the clay packing over the sand vein and he's now seeing ground water level.

If he could dig a hole with an excavator or backhoe to the depth that his pond is in that sand vein, he could see if the water level in the hole mimics the water level in the pond.