My wife and I bought a lot earlier in the spring on a 7 acre pond (plan to build home in 1-2 years). Not spring fed, I assume it gets its water from runoff in the neighborhood. We had seen it last year and it had some scum but still looked decent. This summer (dry and hot here in west central Wisconsin) I have been monitoring the pond and it keeps getting scummier and scummier. Currently about 80% is covered with scum.
Apparently there are quite a lot of fish in it. I don't really know the depth yet. I'm going to call the realtor who set up the neighborhood to see if it was surveyed and such.
It's a great new neighborhood with lots of kids and nature, but seeing how gross this pond is now I'm considering not building on the lot, but reselling it instead, even if it means taking a loss, as I don't want to live the next 20 years with a scummy eyesore in my backyard. (I know we probably rushed our purchase of the lot, but my wife really liked the neighborhood, if ya know what I mean, and it's in the perfect location, job wise) I've read a lot on the web about aeration and I know the pond desperately needs this, but my question to you guys is...will a good aeration system be enough to fix this pond? If so, I plan to go to the homeowners association to see if everyone will support putting one in.
I'm not sure how to add pics to a post here but I can sure email pics to anyone. Or if someone can explain how to add pics here I'll do that. I'm not sure if all the scum is FA or WM etc.
thanks in advance
sam
