Seems pretty high for my area. Had my just under 1/2 acre pond cleaned out 2 years ago for $2500 and he just used a trackhoe with an extended reach arm, but my pond was dried up and he could drive the hoe on part of it. I let the muck and extra dirt set a year to dry out and he came last year and leveled it all out with a dozer, building me a berm for a shooting range with part of it, for $800 more. I think the trackhoe and operator were $140 an hour and he was there less than 2 full days. Someone good on those can move a lot of dirt in a day.
Gulp! That is ~10x less than what I'm looking at. Did you drain your pond out? How long did you let it dry after it was drained?
Part of my problem here is that the water table is so high, it will be impossible to keep the darn thing dry. My pond doesn't freeze up in the winter and it gets darn cold here. Tells me there is a lot of water coming in.
