![]() I got your PM, and will PM you with a little more info later this evening or over the weekend.The new dredge came from the Ellicott Company in Baltimore, is 35-feet long, weighs 30 tons, is sparkling white with bright red lettering, blue equipment and yellow cleats, and cost $628,000. There are lots of incredibly great threads about rejuevenating ponds - whether naturally or with heavy equipment. I think I've found a source in Virginia, and one in West Virginia.ĭefinitely go to the Pond Boss site. I'm hoping to start my first season of tilapia this year to see if they really work. My pond is still in pretty good shape, but I figure I've probably got 12 inches of muck. In recent years, I've read claims of people putting tilapia in ponds much like yours and finding that within two or three seasons, they've substantially cleaned out much of the muck. ![]() Maybe he can add a little more about tilapia.)Īnd see page 4 of Cecil Baird's great newsletter: (I noticed that Meadowlark added a post to this thread. I can't find the articles and links I really wanted, but here are three that may help you get started: A dredge is sometimes used in gravel pits, but I have never seen one on a small pond reclamation project.Įddie answered some of it. There simply is no other way to dredge a pond around here than to use a dragline or an excavator with a long reach. Sometimes they sink multiple wells upstream of the construction site and pump the ground water out and around through man made "streams" lined with palstic sheeting. ![]() On construction projects they have to pump and keep the pumps running for days and days and if the pumps stop the hole fills up pretty fast, as in a day or two. ![]() If you pump the water out of a pond more just comes back in. It sounds like it is easy to drain them.Īround here there are huge underground aquifers that flow like rivers within feet of the surface in many locations. It seems most of the ponds, tanks and dams out west are constructed to catch runoff water and store it for animals and irrigation. From observing the folks from the south west talking about ponds, tanks and dams here on TBN over the past few years I've got to say that they have a very different idea of what a pond is than is around here in northern Indiana/southern Michigan. A lot of folks are assuming you can drain the pond. ![]()
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