Hi question about ground water

[Seanmtodd]

Hi everyone I’m hoping your expertise can steer me on building a pond with a ground water issue. I’m living in France and part of our garden is a sort of basin, it’s incredibly overgrown but seems to have had a stone edge at some point, it’s approximately 20m by 10m in a ovalish shape, in the winter and spring it fills up with water and persists even without rain but in the summer and autumn it’s dry so I’m assuming it’s groundwater riding in the winter and dropping as we get towards summer. My question is can I install a pond in the basin and if so how do I overcome the rising ground water problem? Cheers