Blow it out your hole, Guy. The tree has been sitting in standing water for 5 years and smells like rot. Regardless of anything else that might be observed, the tree sounds like it has a very high possibility of catastrophic root failure. Or do you need to spend a few hundred dollars of the...
If the tree is close enough to hit the house, I'd be urging her to get it removed. Regardless of the source of water, it sounds like a lot of root rot problems as well as slime flux (the black ooze on the trunk). Then she can find the source of the water and have it shut off.
Years ago I was...
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