The wife and I are building a home currently. My water table is about 2 feet below grade on the property. We want a basement and to do so we have to build up. Dirt's quite expensive to buy so I figured I would get a pond out of the deal and use that dirt to help the grade look nice. I'm having a 1/2 - 3/4 acre pond put in for all the needed dirt. The soil in about 10 inches of topsoil followed by at least 10 feet of sand. The test holes we dug to 10 feet are all holding water.

To the question, do I need to aerate in a water table pond? I was thinking I would need to, but I guess its possible that the water will naturally cycle through the pond because its the water table.

Unrelated note. It's an extra 4k to do a 3/4 acre pond over 1/2 acre pond. Reason it's more isn't just the digging but rough and final grading around the new house. I plan to stock not necessarily for trophy fish but for food, possibly YP and Walley as they are my favorite to east here in SE Michigan.