I have a settlement pond ahead of my two main ponds. It's about 30 feet wide and 50 feet long. I have recently drained it and it has about a foot of muck in the center part of the bottom. I have had trouble with this pond being muddy since it was first built in December 2016. It's in all red clay, and I think the builder left a lot of loose stuff on the banks and in the bottom that has made the muck.
It has a very hard, pure red clay bottom under the muck. I have been all over it with hip boots. No sinking beyond the muck.
I wonder if I could successfully muck it out with a compact tractor loader after it dries a bit more? It's only about four feet deep, and the muck in the middle is about a foot thick, so effectively three feet deep now.
Last edited by John Fitzgerald; 06/26/22 06:49 PM.
