Originally Posted by bcraley
I had very similar concern and anxiety over water clarity when my pond was new. Stock your FHM if you haven't already and keep working on riprap and vegetating the watershed... most likely, it will clear, but certainly will test your patience.

http://forums.pondboss.com/ubbthreads.php?ubb=showflat&Number=503681

Thanks for the link, it gives me a little bit of hope for the future...

10lb of FHM went in on 14 March.

I'm struggling to get grass on the clay banks down toward the waterline, but otherwise the rest of the watershed has grown nicely this spring. If it'll stop raining here, I've got four bags of 29-0-4 to put out to hopefully help motivate the grass struggling to come up on the banks.