I live on an approximately 30 acre lake, with 150 ft of frontage. It's a healthy BOW, but with that also come submerged vegetation and muck that makes swimming prohibitive. I have been tossing around the idea of aerating an area along my frontage to promote mixing, thereby improving the conditions for the goal of using it to swim, but curious what this forum might think about the local effects in such a large BOW.
I'm a DIY kind of guy and had considered a HIBLOW HP-80 Pond Aerator with sinking hose and building a couple of aerator rings of diffusion hose to place and occasionally move around within the area I'm targeting (Depths ranging from 0 (shoreline) to 6 ft, which probably represents a target area of 25ft by 40ft (1,000 ft2). That particular model is stated for capacity (80L/min) and designed for ponds up to 1/2 acre at 10' or less in depth, so more than adequate for the Area/Volume I am targeting, but far less than the overall size of the BOW.
Does this sound realistic?
