I was new to the site a wile back, did a few post about my pond, din't realy kow where to go with it wanted fish but confused on kind. So got wife pregant had little boy now im back for help Here wat I got
60 year old man made pond spring ground water 3/4 acre no inlet or outlet shape round trees around 3/4 of it was over 15' deep at one point filled in with leaves, pine, ect no cattails or duckweed real thick weed on bottom looks like "pine tree" depth finder shows 7' in deep hole but lots of weeds water real clear can see 4' down noproblem lots of rainbow cubs have planted bluegills and a catfish made it 1 year found at ice out dead. minnos make it every year ice gets about 2 1/2' thick
So I want it back to 15' less weeds fish all year "for my boy"
talked to a guy with hydraulic dredge said two 10 days of work he could remove all weeds and muck for "big bucks"
so let me hear it from the pros, am I just going to have minnos or is this fixable?
MY boy is 9 months would like his first fish to be in the pond...
Is there land available to dump the muck and sediment that you take out of the pond? I was talking to a heavy equipment rental place the other day and they said that hydraulics beats cable every time for speed. It's not good to dig in water with hydraulics, it's much better (and less $$ spent) to pump out the water and dig it dry (or as dry as possible).
As for pumping out the pond ... well thats a lot of water around 1 million gal.. There is a swamp across the road I could go there with it, but I don't need to flood out my neighbors. it might hold it?
I was new to the site a wile back, did a few post about my pond, din't realy kow where to go with it wanted fish but confused on kind. So got wife pregant had little boy now im back for help Here wat I got
60 year old man made pond spring ground water 3/4 acre no inlet or outlet shape round trees around 3/4 of it was over 15' deep at one point filled in with leaves, pine, ect no cattails or duckweed real thick weed on bottom looks like "pine tree" depth finder shows 7' in deep hole but lots of weeds water real clear can see 4' down noproblem lots of rainbow cubs have planted bluegills and a catfish made it 1 year found at ice out dead. minnos make it every year ice gets about 2 1/2' thick
So I want it back to 15' less weeds fish all year "for my boy"
talked to a guy with hydraulic dredge said two 10 days of work he could remove all weeds and muck for "big bucks"
so let me hear it from the pros, am I just going to have minnos or is this fixable?
MY boy is 9 months would like his first fish to be in the pond...
Thanks for any info Ekim
Hey UNM Whenever I get confused about what fish I too get my wife pregant..:)....In your situation I think it wise to listen to Nancy Pelosi and............ "drain it"
" EVERY DAY I'M AMAZED BY HOW MANY THINGS I DON'T KNOW AND HOW MUCH STUFF I DON'T UNDERSTAND"
OK If I knew the swamp across the road would hold it I would pump it out.. but how big of a pump dose a guy need? haha a big one I know. Will a 4inch trash pump work? And your certain the water will come back 100%
With that 4" trash pump you probably could pump it dry in 2 days of running. (23000 gph)
Will it fill back up? Nothing in ponds (well almost nothing) is 100%. Where does the water come from now that keeps the pond full?
I used a 3" semi-trash pump to pump my pond dry and keep it pumped down so we could renovate it. It worked great. I learned that I needed to float the intake screen from an innertube to keep from sucking up too much sand from the bottom of the pond, which filled up the intake hose.
I was new to the site a wile back, did a few post about my pond, din't realy kow where to go with it wanted fish but confused on kind. So got wife pregant had little boy now im back for help Here wat I got
60 year old man made pond spring ground water 3/4 acre no inlet or outlet shape round trees around 3/4 of it was over 15' deep at one point filled in with leaves, pine, ect no cattails or duckweed real thick weed on bottom looks like "pine tree" depth finder shows 7' in deep hole but lots of weeds water real clear can see 4' down noproblem lots of rainbow cubs have planted bluegills and a catfish made it 1 year found at ice out dead. minnos make it every year ice gets about 2 1/2' thick
So I want it back to 15' less weeds fish all year "for my boy"
talked to a guy with hydraulic dredge said two 10 days of work he could remove all weeds and muck for "big bucks"
so let me hear it from the pros, am I just going to have minnos or is this fixable?
MY boy is 9 months would like his first fish to be in the pond...
Thanks for any info Ekim
Hey UNM Whenever I get confused about what fish I too get my wife pregant..:)....In your situation I think it wise to listen to Nancy Pelosi and............ "drain it"
The ground water level I think is keeping it full But no way to know 100% Water is level with swamp across the road The swamp is mostly cattails and grass A floating bog
If it's groundwater, then digging a deeper hole in the pond, locating the pump there and continually pumping while digging out the muck would be one solution. As long as the water table was higher than part of the pond, the pond would fill up to that depth once the pump stopped.
I went out on the pond today. Drilled 38 holes with auger, ice about 2.5' thick and no slush. Water smelled stagnate, took readings with a pole marked every foot with 38 holes I averaged 6.2' deepest hole was 9' Water is about 2' low from the dry fall we had last year. I could feel the muck with the pole then pushed down till I hit hard bottom some places 2' others not much I don't know if this is very accurate way to measure muck depth but its all i got. Over the 38 holes it came out to be 1' of muck more in some less in others
For all you boys down south I had -20 last night don't you wish you were me !!!!!!
"I'm ready to go ice fishing....get some fish in the pond, dad." "Maybe the guys on pondboss can help you fix the old pond, dad."
Any thoughts on the pond? pump it....... dig it...... hope for water..... restock ..... install air pump.....enjoy......
$3,000 to $30,000, thats it?
Yep, you answered it!
Look at the brightside...The pond will cost and talk back far less than your wife's idea, gleaned from the Mallards. The pond will also be the source of incredible joys and relaxation both with and away from said "idea" for generations to come....if we could only get ponds to produce grandchildren they would be perfect!!!
In Texas we have a conservancy that will pay you for land renovation. I used to know the guy. He would call and ask me if I knew any land owners renovating their land or ponds etc. The biggest problem was you had to pay for it yourself first and provide receipts and then he would cut you a check for what you spent. You may check with your Minnesota DNR and see if they have a like program.