projects: monica's Pond

We also decided to leave the waterfall as is. We would cut the liner out around it and then bond the new liner to it. That would be less work than moving all the heavy stone out

This pond represented a unique challenge as we discovered we had a high water table. You can see the water underneath the liner. To alleviate any "whaling" of the liner we ran flex hose and gravel wrapped in some geosynthetic to a sump chamber

We chose a Nitritech 2500 cloverleaf to filter this pond. It is nice and compact and will handle a pond of this size nicely. Once again we were in fairly tight quarters and trying to get everything done was not easy

The large seam was a challenge and it took 2-3 visits to get it watertight. It was difficult dealing with the folds and rolls in the liner. In the end it was the better way to go as ripping up the waterfall would have represented more work

Without both terrestrial and pond plants. things can look quite barren

Here we see the Nitritech 2500 in the ground and operational. The white tube is 6 inch in diameter and is the access point to the gate valve which shuts off water to the filter system

After everything was running the pond looked good. It is home to 3 koi which we Winter at the warehouse. The pond also has a skimmer and there is good water movement