Hi I'm new to the forum and this is my first post.

I just moved to a house on 2 acres with a 100' x 40' "retention" pond 30' from the back of the house. As my pond fills the dam spills over to the East to a larger pond where most of my neighbors live.

On the west end of the pond which is only 1' deep a farmers field drains to the pond through a culvert. After 20 years my pond is only 4' deep near dam at it's deepest point.

BUT THERE'S MAJOR FISH IN THIS POND THAT I WANT TO SAVE!!!

I got a bid from a Pond company that wants to use a long reach excavator to dig it out and leave the dirt on the banks to dry enough to be hauled off. He also want to dig the West end that comes from the farmers field really deep so that the dirt particles circulate and collect and be cleaned out easily in the future. $10,000

I work at an oil refinery that uses cooling water towers for our exchangers. The basin fills up with sediment that looks like clay. We recently hired "divers" aka waders to clean out the basin that was only a few feet deep.

The "divers used a 6" trash pump to a "seepage dumpster that separated the soil from the water and returned the water back to the cooling water tower.
I spoke to one of them and he said a 4" pump could handle my pond easily in a day.

So I called an equipment rental place and I can rent the hoses, pump and dumpster for a week for $2500...

So what do you all think?

the water still comes to the bank, I would just like to get
rid of some of the muck/silt
I can stick a canoe paddle easily into the bottom about foot deep.


Last edited by stlhooked; 11/07/14 06:27 PM.