Where you are, with all the ravines, you could probably fill a nearby one with the pond sludge, and save a bunch on transportation. Pond sludge looks like and has the consistency of wet concrete when first pushed out. When my pond clean-out was done in August 2015, I had a place to put the sludge right below the lower side of the dam. It took almost a year to dry, and then we smoothed and spread it. It's all grassed over now, and no one would know it is pond sludge unless they knew all about the renovation. I estimate it was about 400 to 500 cubic yards of material for the clean-out of my 1/4 acre pond. We took about 5 feet of sludge out of the middle, and it became thinner toward the edges. We also took out all the trees around the pond, as it was almost completely ringed by them, and had thick brush also on the dam.

I had a huge burn pile in the winter of 2015-16.

Last edited by John F; 04/24/17 02:27 PM.