Pond Boss Forums POND CONSTRUCTION Renovating a Pond or Lake? Pond Draining Questions - with pic

travism, that's exactly what I did when I renovated my pond a few years ago. The shallowest part is now the deepest part. I drained the pond, which forced the fish into the deeper part. I was able to make a temporary dam allowing me to raise the water level in the part of the pond with the fish. After part of the pond was renovated, we broke thru the temp dam, then worked on that area. Depending on which part you want to make the deepest, you can either remove or rebuild the temp dam. Plan on having a lot of sediment flush into the pond when you break thru the temp dam. The water where the fish were had 6" of visibility for the few months that we were working on the pond. I ran my aerator in that area, and only lost 1 BG the whole time.