If you can maintain good, dense, fairly tall grass cover on the upstream side(s) of the pond, it will limit dirt washing into it.

I stop mowing the grass around my ponds early enough in the Fall to leave it 6"+ tall over the Winter.


"Live like you'll die tomorrow, but manage your grass like you'll live forever."
-S. M. Stirling
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