You are going to be looking for levels of the following:

Soluble Reactive Phosphorous
Total Phosphorous 0.01 - 0.075 mg/l
Total Kjeldahl Nitrogen 2-6 mg/l

and for a "normal" pond, they should be in that range.

Ask whoever is going to do the water test if they can test for those, and at that measurement. If not, keep looking for a test facility.


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