I dug a pond in April (rainy season here) and it filled within a day with just water from the water table. Now it’s June and the water has completely gone and the pond is dry and cracked. The soil is pretty much all clay from a foot into the ground. Any advice on how to get it full again? Thanks for the info!
I am going to need to ask you a few questions. But firstly, it's totally brilliant that you've dug a pond & also brilliant that you have clay soil. Ponds always do this rapid emptying when they are new. They also rapidly empty, if the watertable is low & if the groud is parched. When ponds or rivers have been dry for a while; it takes quite a lot of continuous heavy rain to refill them. As the ground needs to fully replenish the watertable Although your pond is currently empty, all that rainwater, which got caught & trapped by it, which before would presumably have been washed away completely, has now been absorbed by your local water table, raising it up significantly. For your dry season, the water table wouldn't have falen as much as it would have done before the pond was there. Questions: 1) What are your climate patterns, rough location & average rainfall? 2) Is your pond situated in the naturally wettest place? 3) Dose natural runoff from rainwater naturally end up in the pond? 4) Below the topsoil layer, do you have clay subsoil all the way down? 5)How deep is your pond? 6) When you built the pond, was the clay compressed? 7) What are the intended purposes of the pond?
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I dug a pond in April (rainy season here) and it filled within a day with just water from the water table. Now it’s June and the water has completely gone and the pond is dry and cracked. The soil is pretty much all clay from a foot into the ground. Any advice on how to get it full again?
Thanks for the info!
I am going to need to ask you a few questions.
But firstly, it's totally brilliant that you've dug a pond & also brilliant that you have clay soil.
Ponds always do this rapid emptying when they are new. They also rapidly empty, if the watertable is low & if the groud is parched.
When ponds or rivers have been dry for a while; it takes quite a lot of continuous heavy rain to refill them. As the ground needs to fully replenish the watertable
Although your pond is currently empty, all that rainwater, which got caught & trapped by it, which before would presumably have been washed away completely, has now been absorbed by your local water table, raising it up significantly.
For your dry season, the water table wouldn't have falen as much as it would have done before the pond was there.
Questions:
1) What are your climate patterns, rough location & average rainfall?
2) Is your pond situated in the naturally wettest place?
3) Dose natural runoff from rainwater naturally end up in the pond?
4) Below the topsoil layer, do you have clay subsoil all the way down?
5)How deep is your pond?
6) When you built the pond, was the clay compressed?
7) What are the intended purposes of the pond?