Geology..may need some help here.

[Sutol]

Water in depression is a pond when the weather is wet and dry when the weather dry.
When depression has water in it the surrounding land is wet, wet enough for the tractor to sink in places and we live on top of a hill.

The well isn't used any more and we use mains sewerage

Downhill is farm land on all sides, not ours I might add.

Hoping the land will drain quickly now after a wet spell

Well it has rained some and the water level has stayed the same, need more rain though to see what happens

 

[Fossil Farm]

If the sandstone is not fractured, it may drain somewhat slow,
with the water just moving laterally (horizontally) on top of the bedrock.
Many times limestone is more fractured and drains quicker through
the rock, but you are stuck with sandstone.
Hope it works out for you. Good luck.

 

[Sutol]

If the sandstone is not fractured, it may drain somewhat slow,
with the water just moving laterally (horizontally) on top of the bedrock.
Many times limestone is more fractured and drains quicker through
the rock, but you are stuck with sandstone.
Hope it works out for you. Good luck.

Water level only rose a couple of inches after some rain and then went back down slowly to its level again so i think we may be in luck.
Wont know properly until we have several inches of rain though.

 

[blunosr]

Maybe someone has already said this, but it sounds like you have a perched water table (perched aquifer). Look up images of this on Google, and it will be obvious to you what that is. They're quite common.

Yup, I'm a geologist.

Bye for now,

Troy