I'm new to this site and appreciate any help. I bought property in VT with a 3/4 acre pond that's over 20 years old...maybe older. Everything is great except the water has a slight tint to it like tea when the sun hits it and there are several inches of silt on the ledgestone bottom. If I snorkel in the water, visibility is maybe 10 -12 feet. Is the tea color from the silt? If the silt is removed, will the color be clear? Can the silt be pumped out using a trash pump? There are no problems that I can see from the year that I have owned the property other than the tint and silt. The pond is fed from a snow/rain runoff creek that travels through a section of cattails before it enters the pond. In spring it flows hard down from a ledgestone ridge and summer it trickles. The sellers also told me it was spring fed...the pond dropped only an inch or two over summer. What can I do to clear the water? Thanks for your advice.
