questions about a body of standing water, either natural or artificial, that is usually smaller than a lake. Usually ponds contain shallow water with marsh and aquatic plants and animals.
Questions tagged [pond]
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Hole in pond liner help
I had a leak in my waterfall and I finally found it. There is around a 3” hole I found under a flat rock where there is a small falls. It looks like the original landscapers just loaded the hole up with rocks and foam with hopes it would hold. There…
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Ensuring drainage for filled in concrete pond
We've got this small concrete pond that we wish to fill in to make a flower bed.
The pond is 60cm deep at one end and 30cm at the other.
It currently has two 1cm holes in the bottom of it, which has been enough to keep it from filling with rain…
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Advice on reducing size of a pond with fill
We have a large pond on our property that I'd like to reduce in size to make more "solid ground" space around it. We also have piles of broken concrete blocks / chunks of cement taking up lots of space.
I was thinking to dump the concrete fill in…
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When can water hyacinth be started in zone 8b
I'm starting a half barrel pond and am wondering when I can add water hyacinth. I'm in zone 8b (seattle, WA USA).
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What is taking bites out of my lily pads?
I have a single lily pad plant in a very small pond, about 3-4 feet in diameter. There are no turtles.
Recently the leaves have been ravaged by something which is eating them from the rim inwards. It looks like somebody took a bite out of the lily…
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Filling in a fibre glass pond
I have a man made fibre glass pond that I want to fill in, it is now empty, however do I need to puncture the base and sides of the fibre glass prior to filling, unfortunately I cannot remove it as it is too well bedded in place, so I will just have…
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Filling in old 4 foot deep 4 foot wide pond
We want to fill in a small deep pond, about 4 feet across and 4 feet deep, we want to convert it to a pondless water feature. the liner is not leaking, want to fill in the most economical way possible without wrecking the liner. thought of filling…
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Adding waterfall to existing Pond and convert to pondless
We have an existing pond which has a cinder block wall above/behind it. with large rocks around the edge. It had no pond liner and no proper drainage. I had set it up pondless i was thinking of trying to add a water fall or 2 but I had a pond guy…
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Would a vernal pond (as either a retention basin or a infiltration basin) be a viable solution for this drainage issue?
So my backyard is showing some heavy pooling issues. I am in Southern Maine, USA
The lowest point (picture 1) is, unfortunately pretty close to the garage pier foundation, and when the water pools it includes two of the pillars.
My thought is to…
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I want to build a small concrete raised pond (about 6' x 3' x 2.5') and recycle some broken concrete in the process
I broke up some concrete in my back yard with a sledgehammer and now it's lying in a pile. Can I use some of it in the walls of a concrete pond, so I don't have to haul so much away?
I hope this isn't a silly question.
If it is, my fallback question…
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Filling in a plastic pond
I want to just drain by adding
rocks/cinderblocks and then top with soil/plants.
Will that work or will rain/snow collect and flood-
ruin topsoil/plants?
