A Chat With March's Profile, Jason Blake, founder/president, The Pond Guy, Inc.

CS: So your company offer its customers a long-term solution to their pond maintenance needs.
JB: You think about a pond and you have weeds. You kill the weeds, they fall to the bottom and they rot. Now there's nutrients — it's like a compost pile. So then more weeds grow up the next year. Then you throw more chemical on and you kill them. As time goes on, you've basically created this bed for weeds to really thrive. Every year you're treating more and more and more, you get the same results. Our system actually goes in and takes those nutrients that are on the bottom — that are creating the growth from the beginning — and it removes those nutrients. So you're actually getting rid of the source of the problem, which is really that nutrient load. That's really the core philosophy of what we do — we build equipment around that. We actually manufacture aeration systems, that's another thing that we do.