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Thanks guys. I have done a water test from a home kit and found ph over 8.5 and total alkalinity is over 300. All other numbers are in line. No problems with nitrates or hardness. I will look into tamu doing a water test and soil test in the future. Could the ph or alkalinity numbers be effecting the color of water or causing sediments to suspend? How ideas on much alum to treat a less than quarter acre pond ?

Cecil regarding your question of dead grass on the banks this pond has a berm around the edge. Its built up around the edges about a half a foot till the bank drops, my pictures didnt show that well ill try and get a better one up tomorrow. Im not crazy about it and may look at knocking it down to allow runoff to enter in the future. The previous owner said they did this to prevent flooding the house which is 100 ft away during hurricane season in which we see some crazy rainfall totals from time to time. But this prevents runoff from entering the pond it stays full from rain (wait whats that?) and predominantly a well. During the winter I didnt water the lawn or fill the pond and lost about a foot of water, some of the grass on banks has been slow to get going as a result. I took these pictures yesterday after topping it off.