Thank you for answering.
the ponds I'm adding to dont have life in them yet.
Total draw from the one acre pond is around 150000 gal
I purposely dammed up the spillway on the one acre pond added 18 inches to the depth.
My idea was to use the extra water to fill up the new dug ponds as we got heavy rains.
Had no idea the rains wouldn't come till August.
I will only be drawing the pond down to its normal level.
Do I need to take the water from deeper in order to remove the deadly non oxygenated water.
I was hoping this might remove some of the stratified water.