Northeast Gardening: Pond Construction, 2 by wha

wha wrote:
And here it is a couple days later after the big rain storm we had this early this spring. Notice that the water level at the ledge is not level!!

I had been using a 4' level and as i was digging out the ledge would check to see it was at the same height. Well that did not work. So four full days of stacking stone were removed in one day. I also found two small turtles in there which was kinda cool, i moved them back to the "real" pond.

I had to remove the liner and get back in there and dig out the ledge lower and level. What was nerve wracking was that i had already installed the skimmer to the liner so i had to be very careful not to break the seal between them. To be sure it would be level i used the 10' 2x3 from side to side.

In addition to lowering the ledges i also noticed the i miss calculated the slope in the yard. The wider section of stream did not come close to being deep enough to have a foot of water as it entered the pond. As there was stone ledge i ran into while digging i knew it was as deep as it would get. So all the dirt (and then some) from leveling the ledge would be used to make that section of the stream thinner as the rest of the stream.

Just exercise right.................?

This message was edited Jul 1, 2012 6:01 PM