Originally Posted by Retired on 40
Like esshup, in parts of upstate NY we have been in drought with zero surface runoff for 6 mo. My new pond is 5.5ft below full and all it would take is 2" of runoff from the watershed to fill it.

That is a painful loss of water, or did it ever get filled? If I recall this is a new pond. I treated with SoilFloc the previous two years and was sad this year when we got down 18" despite this. However, it never got as low as it had in prior years when it wasn't as dry as this year. Also realized that some nearby ponds that I never saw get low were down several inches as well. Definitely a dry year and thinking without the SoilFloc things would have been much worse. There was a year that my pond got down 3ft below full despite being a normal rain year.

Our level is finally going up, and hoping it tops off soon, otherwise rising water and ice will float off my dock! The ground had finally saturated enough for a small spring to SLOWLY lift the level up, maybe 1/4 inch per day at the most.