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The 2014 Get Green Event had another successful year! Although the weather was cold and the river was moving fast Fort Wayne "get green" patrons showed up to brighten the day! For the past several years Sanco has provided the firefighters with a fluorescent green dye to color the St. Mary's River...

Pond Champs is based out of Fort Wayne, IN. This aquatic service company provides biological dredging services for lakes, ponds, marina's, channels, golf courses, and municipalities. Pond Champs takes a different approach to pond and lake dredging compared to your traditional mechanical or suction dredging...

Pond Champs offers a unique dredging service that differs from traditional mechanical or suction dredging.

There are several types of lake dredging methods to be considered when faced with a dredging project.

In the past ponds have been mechanically dredged. It was a tedious and costly operation that was necessary, but always a pain. Another drawback of mechanical dredging is the toll that it can take on a pond. Luckily for pond owners everywhere Pond Champs has a new way to dredge ponds...

Sanco has two varieties of St. Patrick's Day green dye! Here are a couple photos that show the difference between the two colors. Adding green dye to a body of water can take your St. Patrick's Day celebration to the next level. We have several annual events that we provide green dye to tint their water ways.

People often notice pond weeds and algae growing late in the season when freezing conditions are beginning to develop. This brings to mind the question: What exactly happens to pond weeds and algae in the winter?

Filamentous algae is often referred to as green moss, pond scum, sea weed etc... Filamentous is a more scientific term for the type of growth pictured below. This type of algae is one of the most common types of algae found in a pond and fairly easy to control...

We received a call a couple weeks ago from a pond owner in Texas that had a rusty tint to his pond. After seeing the pictures we identified his rusty colored film as a type of red algae. This algae usually starts out as green and then changes to red when it blooms...

Below is a customers photo documentation of a 3 phase sequence of pond recovery. We worked with this customer to identify his pond problems, give him a treatment protocol, and he did the application.