S.E. Jones

Again, thank you for the replies. It gives us some hope that a lot of people seem to be thinking along the same lines as we are. We plan on getting down to the property this week, and we'll be doing some more exploring in and around the water hole. We might be drawing straws on who gets the fun task of getting in there, because we are going to try to bail the water out of the pipe, see if it fills back up on us. I'll be sure to post what we find out.

Thank you for the replies so far!!

It's a plastic pipe, maybe a foot in diameter, and we've felt around the inside and outside of it with a stick to see if there was any connection and we can't feel anything. It's possible that there might be, but been covered up with debris or earth. There is a bottom to the pipe we can feel and it feels like ground, not a manufactured bottom and it's maybe 6 inches or so deeper than the surrounding area. We could drain it because this is in a slightly elevated spot, but (and this seems silly) like I mentioned in the original post, there's a nice little population of frogs making a home there, and we'd hate to disturb them too much.

We've only found one potential spring on the property, but it's not terribly close, maybe about 1000 feet away, on a different slope. We do plan on doing some more water exploring soon. We unfortunately aren't on the property full-time and with work schedules, haven't able to get out there as often as we'd like. The past few visits have been taken up with getting our new (old) tractor up and running.

Hello! New to the forums here, been a big fan of this site for a long time. And now, I am needing some help.

We just bought property down in southeast Missouri this past April. The previous owners appear to have prepping the area to build, but never completed anything. Within about 100-200 feet of what we believe was going to be the main home site, there is a spot that has been dug out, and there is about a foot of water in the hole. There is a pipe in the center of the hole that doesn't appear to be connected to anything. There's also water in the pipe, maybe 6 inches or so deeper than the rest of the hole. There's been water present in the hole since we bought the property; it is lower than it was in spring by maybe a foot, but still there. The water doesn't seem to be stagnant, as there's no foul odor and there's frogs in the water too. The realtor had no information about what plans the sellers had for the property, or what this hole was dug for, so for us it's been a guessing game. We don't know if this was dug as a well, or to tap a spring/seep or if maybe being dug for something else, like sinking a propane or septic tank and they ran into water.

If anyone has any ideas or have run into anything similar to this, any help would be greatly appreciated. I'm including a picture of the hole taken this past weekend.