Thanks for the responses!

I am going to have some dirt work done once I start prepping for my house build hopefully I can work the levee rebuild into that same project.

As far as the runoff nutrients from the neighbor...

Right now I do not see rerouting the runoff as a solution due to the fact it would take a fairly significant trench to go around the pond. The pond is the lowest spot between the farm and the creek.

The shallow end of the pond where the runoff enters the pond ends at my property line. Across my line is a woods road then the pasture fence of the neighbors. This does not leave any room for filtering on dry ground. Actually when I purchased the land the pond was at 100% full and had backed up into the neighbors pasture. Since then I have opened the washout a little more to drain some of the backwater.

I have read here on PB about how some aquatic grasses such as cattails can be invasive at times. Are there other aquatic tall grasses I could plant as a filter in the shallow end. Since this is on the property boundary and is very shallow I am not concerned with trying to fish from the bank in the area. I will also look into building a settling pond.

Just for more background information, this is a very old pond. I have looked at historical aerial photography back to the mid 1940s and it appears the pond was there at that time. (I'm a map nerd) I purchased the property from a timber company which did not do any management of the pond.

I am working on a map of the pond which maybe I can illustrate some of my areas of concerns with ( again, map nerd).

Thanks again for the responses and look forward to learning more from this forum!