Natural Pond & Lake Aeration

Why Aeration Matters

Many ponds are troubled with low oxygen levels due to stagnant water, or an overabundance of decomposing matter. Unless managed properly, a pond or lake may quickly change from a beautiful asset, to a foul smelling eyesore, overtaken with algae, weeds, and insects.

Aeration is all about gases. Aeration mixes the pond so that toxic gases are efficiently released and life-giving oxygen readily replaces it. An aerated pond will be clearer, cleaner, healthier, and have less bottom muck than a pond without aeration.

A pond without aeration will become stratified into two very separate layers in the summer heat. As the sun warms the surface water, it becomes less dense and lighter than the cool water below it. The line at which these two layers separate is called the thermocline.

Both Surface & Bottom Aeration Provide: