I'm no expert and not from your latitude so have no solid advice. But if it were me and I wanted to try it, just putting a single air station in front of your place might be an interesting experiment. You could use it to keep a "hole" open in the ice near shore during the winter for wildlife.

I seriously doubt if you are ever going to be able to do anything about the wood chips, with aeration or otherwise. If you have the kind of money it would take to remediate those kind of problems you describe, save yourself the trouble and buy a nice place in the Caribbean instead. It would probably be cheaper and no shoveling snow.

Edit: Just reread your post and I realize now the wood chips are not in the lake. If the stream runs all winter you may not need to keep open water via aeration.

Last edited by snrub; 09/21/18 05:09 PM.
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