I am hoping someone has some insight/experienc. I get my house water from the smaller of my two ponds - might be 1/5 acre - 9' deep in the middle.

The pond is 25 yrs. old and I have been here the last 21 years. This problem is new - has never been a problem before.

We have water that has some brown color to it and an odor of "something alive". I bring the water into the house with a pump - the take up has a filter cannister on it. I add chlorine bleach with a chlorine pump - then into a 50 gallon settling tank, then into a second 50 gallon tank, then through a "greensand" filter I believe is designed to remove chlorine.

The water coming out of the first tank tests out to > 3 ppm chlorine. Used to be adequate - causes the solids to settle out.

Here is what is different now (I think). The pond is brown and I can no longer see the fish. I think it may be an algae bloom. I am confident it is not sediment as it has not rained in over a week and the pond is not clearing up. Plus sediment doesn't smell like dead "live stuff" from a pond.

Any suggestions on how to clear the water in the pond? Remember it is most likely algae, not sediment - sediment would have settled out and plus probably no odor.

2/3 acre pond 12 miles from that big pond we call Lake Erie.