"~ Windsong ~" wrote in message
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"Derek Broughton" wrote in message
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Well, if _that's_ what you're saying, I agree with you :-) Ingrid's
next
point is pretty good too - I do try to get the majority of the muck
vacuumed out before the pond freezes over. I certainly don't keep the
bottom spotless, even in Winter, but I do try to limit the muck to an
amount that can't develop serious anaerobic pockets.
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derek
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This past summer I had an outflow directed into the pond in such a was as
to
keep most "stuff" from settling on the bottom. Kept suspended, it was
sucked up into the filter. Of course when the temps drop I shut
everything
off but the small pumps that keep an opening in any ice. There is very
little debris on the pond bottoms.

This past spring, I had a small pump sitting near the surface pumping water
around the pond egde. It got the whole pond circulating in a circular
fashion. When I stirred up gunk it eventually got pulled into the current
and ended up deposited against a pile of rocks I have. This aided cleaning A
LOT.


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