We have a 1/4 acre pond that's fed by the discharge from our open-loop geothermal heat pump. The pond is 18 years old. It has a lot of vegetation growing around the perimeter and is filling in with silt from rain water. We have an overflow outlet that drains into our meadow.

I want to have it dredged and then use the dredged material to fill the raised beds in my vegetable garden.

How do I go about this? What's the suggested process?

Thank you in advance for your advice.