Pond Boss Forums INTRO Questions & Observations Dredging a pond

I removed 6" of muck from the bottom of my pond but mine is much smaller .18 acres, 25 feet deep. I used a dredge called a coin dredge made by keene. The coin dredge is made to float over you while you are dredging and return the silty water back to where it was sucked up from, not good in our case, but you can extend the discharge and use the dredge to pump out a pipe which I hung over the dam. The coin dredge is a 4" dredge made to recover lost coins and jewelery and you work it as you swim along using the air supply from the dredge compressor. It worked well for me but I'm a diver and it's not possible to do this from anywhere but directly on the bottom! If you are not a diver and not comfortable working by feel in zero visibility (I dove for 30 years in New york) you should rethink this. I had the dredge because I used it to recover lost jewelry from ocean beaches so it didn't cost me to try it. While it did work, it was an intensive project. I'm not sure I'd do it again. It's amazing what goes through your mind when you are in a total blackout and you're sticking your arms elbow deep into black ooze!