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Originally Posted by DUSTY
Yuck! Muck! I have a summer camp on Lake Waukewan that has sediment on the lake bottom. I was interested in knowing of the best way to remove it. I want to use it as fertilizer in the garden. I have been somewhat successful scraping it off the bottom, but it is a messy operation. Any ideas??
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I've noticed an increase in muck (and leeches) as my mile of abutters on my shoreline increasingly "go McMansion", and use Ice-Eaters. I started a similar quest at one of my three "little-frog-on-the-pond" waterfront locations.
It depends on what material the sediment is made of: mine is mostly vegetative in composition (brown, dead, + brown, dead algae).
I used a 3-inch diameter "trash" pump to move it through a screen on shore—then, a finer screen. Since the sediment "problem" moves with the waves, it's not likely you'll be improving
your lakefront for very long.
The material doesn't seem to have
any fertilizing qualities anyway, and worse, the sediment dried-out to disclose salt! (This is a rainwater-dependant Florida protected inland water—90 miles from the ocean—with the very-softest freshwater I've ever experienced).
If I were to do it on a full-time basis, I'd get one of those new (but old) windmill pumps, pump the sediment onto land, dry it, and use it as mulch—or, in Florida,
burn it.
But you'll get little sympathy from NHDES, in the
LFOD state!
