I had a pond constucted a couple years ago. Due to record drought is has not completely filled. During construction, a 4" perforated PVC field drainage tiles was discovered and left exposed to drain into the pond.

The tile is about 6 feet below the top of water suface and is currently exposed. It only flowed initially (construction of the pond apparantly unclogged the pipe). I'm guessing under normal rain years, the pipe would flow more often.

Question- Do I plug this pipe or leave it exposed and open. Is it possible that water could leave the pond and locally saturate the soil around the perforated 4" PVC? The permanent water table is lower than the water surface of the pond (as is the case for most ponds). It seems the pipe could be doing more harm than good by letting water leach out of the pond.

Any thoughts??

John (Northern Missouri)