I'm trying to deal with the muck in my pond but I don't want to drain the pond right now. I tried leaving some muck in my bait fish pond I mixed it with some Sandy material and pushed it to the shallow end of the pond.the intention is to allow some of the nutrients in the muck to keep an algae bloom going we will see if it works.I just posted another thread about trying to mix water into the muck and use a bottom siphon to remove some.