The water stays murky with a clay pond,,I will have to wait and see if maybe in time when the water settles,and the clay stiffens,it might get clearer...but I don't mind it murky,the ducks don't either :)
also,if you look at the end of the pond near the fence where the liner is,I have a drainage...
I used a liner for a couple years,,then saw it had a tear at the bottom,,but never emptied! realizing that our clay earth can hold it in,,so it gave me the idea of digging a big hole to see how long the water lasted in there,,and it lasted. it never emptied. So I expanded,,I know I will have to...
I am so excited! I enlarged the ducks pond this am,,took a lot of hard digging and sweat,but finally done. Our ground is clay,so I extended the pond that I had,,so half is a lined pond and it expands out into a clay based opening,,and the water is holding great! takes a few days for the walls...