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I'm working in a park and we have a small pond, a part of a river system that has become stagnant, mucky and smelly. The river that previously ran into the pond is no longer there and we'd like to be able to make the pond less mucky and have clear water. The pond has a small stream that flows out of it, but the pond itself doesn't seem to have any water flow whatsoever. The bottom is all mud and has no wildlife, expect for a few leaves.The pond is about 2 feet deep, 7 feet across and about 12 feet long. So its relatively small. It's located in Paradise, Newfoundland, Canada. The pond is in a park surrounded by mostly pine trees. And a lot of moss. I'm assuming a river once ran into the pond but now it's mostly boggy moss. Our project for the summer is to try to get the pond to flow again or just make it so it doesn't smell and has clearer water. What can we do? (We have no money to work with, just manual labour.)

GardenerJ
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You should at least spring for a water test. My guess is that the water is hypoxic, perhaps due to eutrophication from fertilizer runoff. If so, then a bubbler system could help (perhaps donated for credit), along with trying to limit the fertilizer runoff.

Daniel Griscom
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