I'm doing that as we speak, I bought the 2 inch clear water pump from harbor frieght it works good just keep the screen off . My pond fills fast and I only have 2 days a week to work on it. If you had more time and the water you could do a half acre pond in a week. My pond is 70% mucked out hope to be done tommorow. I am being really picky about getting it all out though.