Pond Boss Forums POND CONSTRUCTION Renovating a Pond or Lake? spraying on alum

With our pond I only worried about the clay when it was like chocolate milk. The thing is this winter the wind was really crazy strong. The water when ice fishing was clear as a bell. Creepy clear right to the bottom clean. After the snow on the shore started to melt you could see the mud in the snow. Greasy and slick but not way to remove.

After all the ice and snow melted the pond ended up with a dark soil colour with only 18"s of penetration.

This year I don't plan on treating the pond and letting nature take her course. The PH is perfect and I expect there was nutrients in the soil that blew in.

This seems to be the nature of the beast in our area with the winter wind. Unless the pond gets to look like milk again I will leave her alone.

Cheers Don.