Then all of your water erosive force would be going to an area designed to handle it, instead of onto a beautifully manicured shoreline. Instead of trash pumping to the shore, you could put the pump discharge directly in your pond drain pipe. I guess this might even work without the storm. If your fish excluder on either drain was immediately clogging, then could you remove it and build a settling pond with fish trap on the discharge end of your drain pipe? If you liberated some floating muck, then you could add a siphon pulling from just below the surface. Hopefully, the storm water flow through would push some of the sinking muck through the bottom drain. I was thinking of putting your boat prop just above the muck line, or pulling a small drag harrow through the muck from the shoreline. What do you think about trying to have nature do the work? If you see a big rain event coming on the radar that is going to muddy the pond anyway, would it work to deliberately stir up the muck and then let the water flow push some of the crap out of the pond? (Or is the muck generally too dense and will settle out only a foot away from where you stirred it up?) Your pond example is a good puzzle to solve! Pulling in there with a full sized pickup truck was interesting, I have no idea how any delivery trucks got through the gated area. The gate was about 20' off the road and it might have been 10 feet wide. The driveway was blacktop, front yard landscaped and the driveway went through 2 big brick/stone monument things that held the gate. They elected to wait and have their kids worry about it if the kids kept the place - they were in their 80's. The de-watering bags could have been put there and they would have used the muck for soil the following years but at that price the homeowner said forget about it. Right next door was a commercial greenhouse and a place that sold flowers/plants. 3 acre pond, had approximately 6 to 8 feet of muck in it. This particular pond was landscaped all the way around the pond, and had huge Oaks from the front of the house all through the back yard, about 40-50 feet apart, Oaks that were 24"-30"+ diameter. With water in the pond there is no way you can keep a bucket full of muck with an excavator. Thanks for reminding me esshup, that "commercial" means whatever you can get some sucker to pay!
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