What can be done to clear this pond water up some , based on the type of soil I’m guessing not much

My next door neighbor manages mine. He uses copper sulfate.

Have you checked the PH level?

The clearer you get it the more weeds grow in it. We fertilize ours so it darkens the water and gets less weeds in it.

Aluminum sulfate or gypsum. Depends on the size.
But if runoff is causing it to dirty up it won't stay clear.
Do you have livestock on it?

The alumnin sulfate gor rid of our weeds.

Well, Your next door neighbor.....ain't your friend...………
Copper Sulfate is a heavy metal.... Once introduced to your echo-system.....It never
goes away....And I wouldn't eat a fish outta any tank treated with it...…
Here's mine.... Completely organic...….
But one thing is true, if you get a lot of run-off...It's tough to get it cleared up...

Something to PONDer......

So what do you use?

Depends on what is causing it & water chemistry.

---> TAMU water

Testing water ph is always a good idea before starting.

I've had good luck with a number of different treatments, from old school adding barley straw or any well dried straw or very dry / old hay, to magnesium sulphate (epson salts) to crushed limestone varied between powder up to to rock depending on application, softer the limestone the better for rock.
I know some cheapskates that didn't want to spend much at all, 10lbs of seed for the bank and use old / left over dry wall / sheet rock with most / as much as possible of the paper removed.

Best thing is to get something growing all along the waters edge to help control erosion. Plant species that will spread / cover soil as the water level falls.

That’s amazing

beautiful pond > cbump

Nathan, first off, my pond was designed to get very little run off...…
It is fed by a well.... once filled, it's easy to keep it full.. It's on a timer.....
about 1/2 acre and 17ft deep, with a clay bottom.....
To keep it clean... I use Corn Gluten Meal, to keep algey down....especially during
the hot parts of the summer...….(fish love it too)
I use 50lbs...Broadcast it around the tank, with a coffee can...….
For cat tails and weed growth around the edges....I use a product called
Shore Clear.... Sprayed from a back pack, a couple times of the year.....(Google search)
The blue color comes from some stuff called Aqua Shade...……(swimming in an aquarium)
All of these products are 100% organic....and pretty economical.....
I don't remember the name of the company.... But do a search for the Shore Clear
and you'll get the company name.....Hope this helps...….

We have this same problem as the LO dug it out after the 2012 drought. Its 2.5 acres. Was clear before then. We went to Pond King near Gainesville last Friday and didn't have a sample but talked with them and showed them pictures. More than likely our is caused by bullheads aka mudcats. They came from a pond on neighbors place upstream. They are stirring up the bottom. But they said take a sample in a jar and see if it settles in two weeks. If so its the cats and only solution is kill and start over or catch as many as possible. If it is not then gypsum is the answer. We haven't had enough run off lately to make it murky and been like this for 6 years now.

You want water clarity of 18 to 24 inches but no more than 24 inches.

We have to pay a subsidence fee to pump water in my pond.

"More than likely our is caused by bullheads aka mudcats. They came from a pond on neighbors place upstream."

Wouldn't you just have the same problem? I had them in a small lake and you can't catch enough of them to control them.

Yep! Not sure what we could do. Never had them before it went dry and had great bass fishing. Weird. But maybe if enough vegetation was able to grow by getting it clearer it wouldn't be so bad. I need to take a water sample and see what happens. Could be a combination of factors.