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Ryan,
I honestly don't know the answer to your question. Sometimes you just have to try something and see if it works.
What is tbe size of your pond again and hiw much ground water flow do you have to work with? [/quote]
The pond is aprox 1/3rd of an acre and is peanut shaped with two deep holes on either end aprox 18' deep. The water table stays constant all year long (even last year it dropped an inch or two at the most). The swampy area really a pete bogg as you can walk on it and has birch tree's growing and even some hard maples, but you sink a shovel down and its nice soil for 10" and then you better be holding on to the shovel because you will lose it in the pete moss/water and it is at least 15' before you hit anything at all hard. Along the edge of my property where the bog is ground water flows out of the bog all summer long into the road side ditch (not surface run off but weaping right out of the side of the ditch). This water is 55-60 degree's coming out of the bog area and imagine is the same temp going into the pond also. The issue is that after a few weeks of hot sun, the pond temp slowly starts creaping up to the low 70's and in the past this is when I have had the brookies start to show signs of stress and dye.
I can either pump water from the house well down to the pond and spot cool the cage area with the 49 degree well water(the cage is in the middle second of the pond that is 10' deep) OR I have also thought of driving a few well points into the edge of the bog area and pulling out the warmer ground water that is 55-60 deg and use that. My issue is I don't have much time this year to do the well point and buy a pump but I have lots of tubing to bring water down from the house.
Thanks again...Ryan
