Newbie here, first post. Thank you in advance for any help provided. We have an old farm pond about 3/4 acre in size. having talked with some of the old timers from the area our best guesstimate on age would be 90 plus years. Many of the old timers can remember swimming in it as kids. I don't believe the pond itself has had any maintenance or dredging. We get the runoff from several neighbors yards but no fields or anything. I believe the depths may be 7-8 feet in the middle. Most the banks have just a slight grade. The last couple years we have had problems with some sort of algae that I have tried to control with copper sulfate and raking. We had a large fish kill about 5 years ago and during that we lost some of the grass carp. Also 3 years ago many of the ponds in central Illinois got duckweed, ours included. I used Sonar to get rid of it. I have attached a couple pictures of the algae we are getting. I have also attached a picture of a rake I made. It is a pretty crude looking think. I used two sections of 1 1/2" PVC, a 5' and 7' sections. I attached the two sections with a "T" then drilled holes every 6-7" in the 5' section. I then used 1/4" carriage bolts 8" long as the tines. I also used several strands of wire twisted together to stabilize each end of the "rake to the handle. Since most the algae I was trying to collect was floating I also taped foam pipe insulation to the 5' section. I then used a 20-25' rope to toss out and retrieve. This seemed to work pretty good along the edges but still left the center. Which as we speak I am making a different type rake I can pull across the pond. I will post pictures after I have tried it to see if it is successful. I am also thinking of ordering a rake online and wondered what one is best. With the algae I didn't know if I may need the razor rake to clean the bottom. Sorry if this seems scrambled just trying to give as much info as possible. We are located on the west side of Lake Shelbyville south of Findlay for anyone that may know the area. Thank you for any info or help provided. Take care, Shooter


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