Pond Boss Forums POND CONSTRUCTION Soil questions compaction in wet conditions

not too optimistic. The areas that are mucky are relatively small since most of the pond never received water. One area is roughly 150 by 20 and the other area is 50 by 30 ft.

I have limited access to heavy equipment so......

I know this sounds laughable but could we not dig the muck out by hand?
If we dug down one foot removing the first layer of one foot and spreading it out on the dry part of the pond, this would leave one foot of muck.

1. one foot exposed should have some drying to it (not much I understand)

2. Since that only leaves 1 foot left, most equipment I would hope could manage in 1 foot of muck.

3. The foot removed and spread out would dry quicker and be easier to move later.


The basin is 2 ft deep before rock (pond in total is less than acre)

Time I have, not so much money and heavy equipment.