Okay, Spent my entire lunch hour on the phone trying to get answers on water samples...Talked to local water and soil conservation then ILDNR and finally PDC labs...PDC is going to call me back with answers on what they can do for me...

Will on the phone withmy local DNR fisheries biologist he suggested planting water celery, water stargrass and american pond weed to help with the addition nutrient overload...Is this good advice for a 1/2 acre pond that I want to use for swimming and fishing?..

He also suggested shore line plants and grass even though it is edge in rock...I was already thinking a filter strip of some kind, but my wife is not going to let me grow 5' tall switch grass around the pond...

Am I heading in the wrong direction with filtering nutrients or should I just spend the money and chemically treat every 6 weeks?...