My wife noticed water under the refrigerator last night.
After removing food from freezer compartment, we did not see any ice.
Water lines and connections behind fridge were fine.
I removed panel at back on bottom. Below evaporator coils the drip pan was full of water. I vacuumed it out with a wet vac; turned off water supply to fridge.
This morning a little more water was in the drip pan.
This is an LG counter-depth French door refrigerator.
I plan to turn water supply back on to see if it accelerates water in drip pan.
Any suggestions for possible sources?
Thanks in advance.

Ha!
I just went through this two weekends ago. Your drain line has an ice plug in it. That pan collects the water when your freezer goes into auto defrost as it drips off the evap coil. It’s supposed to drain through a line to a tray under the fridge and evaporate. I got a little mung in the drain line that eventually froze and created a plug. I had to go into the back of the fridge remove the drain line and clean it out. Check YouTube as there might be a specific video for your model fridge as this happens quite often.

Isn't the heat from the compressor supposed to evaporate the water in the pan? The implication being that a certain amount of buildup is expected as an integral part of the defrost cycle, but that it should clear by itself between defrost cycles. An air leak in the door seal can produce icing and make defrost cycles occur more frequently. A leak in the door seal is most often caused by an irregularly hung door.

I miss Appliance Brad, who always had the right answer the first time out.

LG and Samsung refrigerators sure seem to have a lot of issues, as I recall there have been many posts over the years about them.

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Isn't the heat from the compressor supposed to evaporate the water in the pan? The implication being that a certain amount of buildup is expected as an integral part of the defrost cycle, but that it should clear by itself between defrost cycles. An air leak in the door seal can produce icing and make defrost cycles occur more frequently. A leak in the door seal is most often caused by an irregularly hung door.

I think you're on to something, architect. And yes, I miss Appliance Brad too.

I've noticed that the door doesn't shut as easily; it may be left open at times which would certainly increase the frequency of defrost cycles.

Tech says water valve is broken, has ordered new one. Is that it? We'll see.