Well of course I couldn't let well enough alone so the dry stream bed became a wet stream. In the process we marked out a stream bed, thinking we would add a dry stream to the garden. Some of the boulders were well over a ton so this was a task for a pro. So we bought a bunch of boulders that matched the pond and a bunch of topsoil and my landscaper came out with a bnobcat and we moved rock and dirt till we were both happy. After considering this for about 10 seconds I said lets do a Japanese garden and she said sure. My lovely wife politely suggested we do something nice. Great, now I can build a small mud pond, right ? Wrong. Shortly after finishing the pond we had the rock wall at the rear of our property moved back 20'. Well thanks a bunch for all the kind words. The pergola visable in the third shot was a later project that sent me to the hospital, but that's another story. The pond is plastered like a swimming pool. The filters are behind the waterfall on the other side of the rock wall. I did all the plumbing and built the giant leaf trap and dug the plumbing trench 6' deep and 3' wide. The soil is Very, very stable as you will see and can hold it's shape almost perfectly. The only form we used was the hole itself. A contractor did the concrete work which is swimmingpool grade concrete containing remesh. The waterfall itself is the only part of the old pond we kept and is 20 yrs old. The small skimmer feeds directly into the upper waterfall. The large skimmer feeds a home made filter and both filters return through the middle waterfall.
The bottom drains feed a large leaf trap which feeds a Nexus 300 with Eazy pre filter. It holds 8,000 gal, is 4' deep at the drains, straight sides to 3', has two 4" bottom drains and a large and a small Savio skimmer. It was built in July 2004 on the site of our old pond. Well this is Wayne's idea so blame him if it ain't any good.įirst some shots of the pond itself.
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