I will follow this with interest, esshup. You are correct that if the water level of the pond is higher than the table the pressure in the pond will prevent inflow into the pond from ground water.

How big a pond in surface area are you going to be testing this on? What is a unit of soil floc? I mean in terms of weight and volume? How much does this unit of soil floc cost?

It isn't what we don't know that gives us trouble, it's what we know that ain't so - Will Rogers