This is the inlet into the pond, where the land is reclaiming where the water used to be!

Cutting some of the overgrowth in the inlet so we can see what we are working with!

Probing the sediment depth in the inlet- when a 5’ probe goes all the way down and would keep going if you let it…you’ve got a problem

Trying to find the original bottom… It was too deep in muck! Every pond has a bottom of some sort, and that’s what we look for when restoring and removing muck and sediment.

Just getting started, and here comes the rain. While we almost never have to drain an entire pond, we do prefer to lower the water level to expose the area to be excavated.. This pond needed two 4” temporary siphons to help keep the water level down during the project

Dual 4” temporary siphons working hard to keep up with all the rain during the project!

Battling the rain and the inlet creek, but finally starting to see some progress in the inlet. We removed 15 years worth of muck (over 700 yards) out of this inlet to reach original bottom!

Aquatic South going above and beyond on the access for this project. While there was access to the site via the clients driveway, we knew it would be a mess. We got creative and cleared a path and brought in ground stabilizing 3-ply mats to allow us to load dump trucks away from the street and the clients driveway.

Getting creative with access to the inlet. More often than not, getting equipment and truck access to the dredge site is challenging, requiring careful planning and thinking outside the box- if it was easy, everyone would do it!

Comparing before and after pictures, it looks like a whole new pond- this is the same inlet that had 6 ft+ of accumulated muck

And a view of from the other side of the inlet! Another very happy client reclaiming their pond!