Well I was worried about my weir overflow that we built, the ice is 2 feet thick and the water stopped flowing out the weir about 3 weeks ago and what was flowing was freezing - maybe a slight trickle remained. So I was worried about the ice crushing the weir, cracking it, or lifting the boards at some point and draining the lake somewhat so I drilled some holes and put the aerator in there for a couple of hours. It's running off the generator and on ecoload I should get a solid 12 hours of aerating out if it before I return tomorrow.
Here are the results after 2 hours. FYI we built the weir not at the deepest part of the lake because I dont plan on draining it ever and at the depth I made it I could do any work I needed to if I dropped it to that level. That is a 36 inch culvert. Next year there will be constant flow after I create a gravel filtering field about 200 meters long into the lake from two other very large swamps.
