Thank you
My budget is up to a 1000 dollars if something works and i would like to have a couple feet of leaves removed each season
A couple of inches per year? yes. A couple of feet per year? Unless you mechanically dredge it, that's not going to happen, and $1,000.00 isn't a big enough budget for that. Using bacteria you can't undo in a year or two what took decades to accumulate.
Call that place in Dearborn, MI. that Bill linked to and get a quote from them. You might be better off doing nothing, banking that $1,000 every year until you have enough saved up to get it dredged. Then once it's dredged, install bottom diffused aeration and start fresh.
Sorry for the bad news, but I am not "politically correct" and don't tell people what they want to hear. I tell them what to expect in real life.
I had a discussion with a customer 2 days ago about him renting a dredge to suck out feet of accumulated muck/peat from his pond. His budget for that was 100x of yours. It turns out that he's only got enough water in the pond to run the dredge for 18 hours before it pumps all the water out. (3,000 gpm is what the dredge moves) Then what? Now we are looking at plan B.
