Jeol Topuette

If digging if the best thing to do, my question would be dig back, down, or both?

I went out today to try and trace where it is coming from. The water is a pushing up enough for a steady trickle. The cavity back in there is about 4"x4". The walls off the cavity are clay fromm what I can tell but I can get a rod to poke down about 4' with my pinky finger (ran out of rod. Didn't hit bottom). It is only soft on the front part of the cavity floor.

Hey All!

I picked out on finding a spring on my property. Doing some tree clearing, the harvester fell into it. I've dug it back and removed the cedar stump from the front of it. It is a mystery how the water even gets through the clay. I'm getting pretty low flow, .07-.1 gpm but it'll do for my low consumption.

Now I'm at a point where I need to make some decisions on how far to dig back. The water is coming from two main spots. One is about the size of my pointer finger and it appears to bubble up (blue line in the photos). The other I can stick my arm back into and it seems there is a cavity and a bit of a pool (red line in photos). I can't exactly tell where that one is coming from. The yellow line is a very slow seep as well but the bulk comes from above. Green in the photo is top soil and the tan is clay. It is a stark layer change.

Do I dig out and release the cavity behind the red line? Do I dig out the smaller one in hopes of better flow? Do I start the spring dam further back or out to the yellow, small seep?

I know these low flow seeps can be ruined and I'd rather that not happen.