Posted by John in La on August 27, 2015 at 17:44:52 from (96.33.136.54):
In Reply to: Leaking pond posted by indianabuckman on August 27, 2015 at 17:13:58:
Do you know where the leak is? How much clay does your soil contain? How big is your watershed? Has this been a dry year for rainfall? Is this a dam pond and do you have any trees growing on the dam?
A normal pond need 10 to 15 acres of watershed per acre of pond just to keep up with evaporation in most normal rain areas. We can do with a lot less where I live but we get over 60 inches of rain per year. For a pond to seal you should have a minimum of 20 percent clay in your soil. Bentonite will seal a leak over time but it would get expensive to cover the whole acre if you do not know where the leak is. Draining it and putting cows on it will compact the soil but you still need some clay.
You could contact your local state college ag center. My state will do a test of our soil and tell us if it is pond building soil. They test for the clay content. But I am willing to bet if it has been holding water for 9 years you either have a low rain year or you have a dam pond and the dam has started to leak.
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