A question regarding snow removal on ½ acre pond in SE Michingan. We had about 3-1/2” of Ice last night about 8pm. Then it started to snow and 8” later the pond is obviously covered. The problem is that the very edges were just thin enough that the weight of the snow caused water to come up around the edges of the ice and now I have 3” of slush and 3” of snow on top of it. Not only does this ruin it for skating but also will make sunlight penetration impossible. (I am not shoveling 3” of slush. Tried that last year and almost died!) I thought since I already had some slush, what if I cut a hole in the ice and then put in a pump and pumped water on top to melt the snow or at least make it all slush that would eventually freeze and possible allow light penetration. I have an electric dewatering pump that is capable of 100 gpm. It may take awhile but I don’t know what else to do. Anybody have any thoughts?

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