Due to reasons most know, My pond has been left unattended for the last 8 months. My watershed is entirely hardwood forest with all oak and hickory. I get MANY tons of leaves in my pond and until this year, the aeration system had been run 24/7 till last November with ZERO muck buil-up from 5+ years of decaying leaves. I didn't want to leave the aeration on unattended and when I saw my pong in mid-July there were 6 inches of leaves rotting in the shallows and few YOY to be found. With aeration, I never had anything other than fresh leaf debris in the shallows.
Two years ago we had some work done on the dam and other parts. The builder said it would need to dry at least 6 weeks before he could get into the bottom areas----due to aeration keeping the muck to nil, he was working 3 days after draining.
