There is a small pond maybe a few hundred feet away behind a neighbors house. We are told it is spring fed, but I have no way of confirming that.
And I think I’m going to try that. I’m going to pump off as much water as possible and then dig a small hole, see what happens.
Something is definitely going on, because even last year while there wasn’t stNding water like this, during the drought, when my entire lawn was basically dead, this area was still lush green in this like 4x4 section