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Steve Lang:
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Let the residential developer create his own pond for primary settling and oil & grease etc.. (floatables) removal and managing the silt accumulations and anaerobic/septic odors and have him provide a clearwell for you to take by pumping, clarified effluent from and you may have a winner.  He's routing his problems to you otherwise.  

In industrial wastewater systems we typically provide 3-5 feet of additional pond depth to provide space for long term settled solids and also segment our ponds to allow for dredging.

Larry_Rodgers:
 At the club I play awest of Denver/east of Morrison the primary water source is stormwater. The developers put in a series of ponds and ditches to "filter" out the sediment before it reaches the irrigation pond. The irrigation pond is about 8 acres and over 35' deep, in last summers drought there was water for the course and when the fall shower came for 2 days the pond recovered from the "mud flat edges".
  Storm water by itself is not all bad, it is a matter of how you handle it and what precautions you have for the sediments. There are machines and companies who have floating dredge units to clean the sediment without taking the pond out of service. Be sure you have proper filtration on your pumps if you intend to irrigate as the sediment will become unstable and could cause some layering to the greens.

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