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Oct 4, 2003, 10:14 AM
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Our new beautiful pond!!!
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 Here is our brand new beautiful pond!
Our first pond was built by a landscaper who thought that digging a hole shaped like a salad bowl was creating a pond. He didn't even level the waterfall! We hired a water feature specialist, showed our design and plans, worked on the breakdown and construction, and created this beauty!
Our pond under construction
The front area was the extension that was to be the 2' still pool for our lillies. The rear area with the liner piled up was our old pond area. It was kept intact until the still pond was done, then we broke down the old one, dug out he area and broke down the wall and then finished the pond and landscape.
The finished product at sunset
The front area is manned with a pair of Pond Sweep skimmers/brushes/green fiber mats. The first one moves 3000 gph and recycles the water under the waterfall to prevent dead spaces. The other skimmer skims and draws from a bottom intake and moves 6500 gph through the two waterfall areas. A slider valve allows me to shut off the bottom feed during the winter and another slider moves the output level between the biowaterfall area (equipped with 3 fiber mats and 3 bags of lava rock) and a secondary fall that looks like a stream running down from behind the waterfall.
A view of the falls
The second waterfall is not visible in this shot and is behind the rocks to the right. This is the koi pool and is three feet deep with steep walls. A lotus and several purple pickeral weeds were planted around the edges.
The final feature is what we have named the Sister Stones. They look like stones that were together at one time, then ripped apart by nature leaving the gap to be filled in by water. I feed the babies from one of the stones and both can be stood on to view the fish and plants. The pond was designed so that you keep getting different views as you move around the perimeter of the pond. We grow lillies, irises, grass, a miniature water blue bell, and water willows. Pictures of my babies will have to wait until spring. We have been hit with very early cold weather ... and even snow yesterday. Sheesh.
The sister stones
Need I say it?  We love our pond and our fish.
The pond has goldfish and orandas from the old pond. Seven butterfly koi added once the pond stabilized. And one $3 koi that has beautiful gold bands down each side, black ripples down its back, a white belly, and a gold/black mask on its' face.
Michael
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