We spread my silt as much as possible during dredging in Aug 2015. That 1/4 acre pond made a row of silt about 30-40 feet wide and well over a hundred feet long, about 2-3 feet deep. It took almost a year to dry enough to spread. I had a very small dozer come in midsummer of 2016 and spread and contour it. It now hosts some of the best grass in the field.

That muck looked like low slump wet concrete when it first came out, and smelled a lot like sewage. When it first crusts over after about a month of hot weather, it will crack and look to be dry, but if you punch at it with a spud bar, it will suddenly break through and go all the way to the bottom.