Cat - I appreciate your comments above and they have me thinking about what has been done at my pond. The dam on my pond has been doubled, maybe tripled, in width from the muck being pushed over. I know in a few places the muck is several feet deep (maybe as much as ten feet). I have been thinking ahead and have thought about putting some shrubs or bush-like trees on the dam side opposite the pond. Will the buried un-decomposed muck be a problem for plants that have deeper root systems? (I'd hate to spend the time planting just to have them reject the deeper soils/muck.)

Fish on!,
Noel