I am going to install some habitat but still trying to figure that part out as to what and where as I dont have many areas that are shallow at all now.
Aeration, yes I plan to put a system in but it will be next year before I can afford to purchase a system after I am done paying for excavation and shaping.
Pond age was unknown but it has to be near 40 years old at a minumum as one neighbor came and got some dirt for his yard and said the pond was there when he moved in 37 years ago. In areas there was close to 8 feet of mud pulled out before hitting the original clay.
The pond is somewhere in the area of 16 foot deep in the middle of the area with water still in it, as the water is near 4 foot deep out there currently and it is apporox. 12 foot from full.
My winter problems werent from freeze up but from oxygen deprevation last year with ice and then snow covering it for a month and half and the fact I had never heard of winter kill in my area from this before.
