Knobber, if you haven't recently, send an update on your pond and send pictures. I'm always curious how fellow MI ponds are doing.
My pond is down about 2 feet or more due to dry conditions and dropping water table. I can't sprinkle my lawn and keep house water pressure up while filling the pond at the same time. I can only fill pond in overnight hours and so I decided against trying. We had a little dusting of rain Sunday but just enough to get the top of the soil moist. No run off so pond is going to be low for a while.
It sounds like you have a good aeration setup. Hope it works well for you. I'm aerating about 8 hours at night just to keep pond water as cool as possible and to help mix the heavy duty coating of pollen and oak tree droppings mixed up a bit. Not sure what else I can do till we get more water.
I'm surprised I don't see any new SFS minnows as the waters should be warm enough to allow for spawning.
Post video of your plume if the forum allows
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My latest update (yesterday) is here:
https://forums.pondboss.com/ubbthreads.php?ubb=showflat&Number=559053#Post559053I don't have the aerator installed, yet. Waiting for grading to finish before setting up the compressor on shore.
We finally got a decent rain yesterday on the east side of the state. Prior to that, it was about 6 weeks with no precipitation. Hopefully, more is coming your way. Yeah, pollen, catkins, cotton, etc sure made a mess of things.
Is it worthwhile to collect rainwater from downspouts and direct them to a pond, or is this just a drop in the bucket for a 0.5 to 1.0 acre body of water? I have a 20x40 barn about 200 feet away uphill. It is worth a try, I guess. I would need a couple hundred bucks worth of corregated drain pipe, though. I could leave it on the ground, but I would have to move it every time I mowed the grass. If I was thinking ahead, I could have been collecting that barn roof water all winter long.
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