What happens when a pond starts to fill in with surrounding sediment? Upstream dirt begins to move downhill and stops as soon as it gets to our pond. Over time, sometimes slowly or sometimes quickly, water starts to disappear, replaced by added shoreline, reduced depth, and wetland plants pop up everywhere. Small trees and brush appear, and the area that used to be water is no more.
As we are all aware, pond management is not always as simple as we’d like it to be, but it’s the complexities and problems that make the challenge of pond management so fulfilling. There are certainly management aspects with which we could be more familiar to help us gain more answers than questions. In this segment of Pond Boss we’re going to cover basics of water quality, and in this first installment, the focus is on your pond’s pH.
