Hello everyone...
So much to consider on my new lake project. NRCS Ladies just left, I apparently have a much larger impoundment area than I thought, almost 6.3 acres, thats awesome, and since I am a working farm they are working up a cost share for me, to hold excess water, recharge aquifers, control flooding, its part of the equip program. Reclaiming some tax dollars. I was explaining some of the things that I have learned from here to them, and they are interested in the siphon drain, wondering if it could help prevent fish kills, and that brings me to the question of aeration. I have discovered from rummaging through y'alls archives that this subject can, to say the least, get complex. But I have pieced together you do get better results if you are able to incorporate the aeration in the initial build, for one thing you stay ahead of muck build up.
But what the NRCS girls and I discussed was the big question of power, and power consumption. Right off the bat we dismissed windmills, because here in the hills of southern Indiana, the wind is less than reliable, its why northern Indiana gets all the wind turbines. We have REMC as the electric provider, might as well as be the mob, the way they extort us, pay us or your cut off, and pay us the highest rates we can get away with, upwards of 12 cents a kwh. So we discussed solar, now one of my neighbors is a fish farmer, he told me that the biggest need for aeration is at night, so it got me thinking of a solar and battery system. Does anyone have any experience with this?
Then just as important, a 6.3 acre pond, twice as long as wide, what type, of diffuser system do I need, how many. Now when I think of a diffuser system I picture a larger version of an aquarium air stone, is this correct?
Does pumping 50000 gallons of spring water a day help with aeration ?
sorry if this is long winded, since I have the help of the NRCS I really want to dot all the is and cross all the ts
I want to make this a great recreation pond, maybe bring in one of those 6x12 pontoons, build a nice dock, put a swimming raft anchored in the middle with a diving board, and have giant bluegills, and blue cats, maybe some walleye...let me know when I become unrealistic, but after reading through here its Y'alls fault, got my head swimming with possibilities
