Water Gardening: Design help for central Texas pond/garden, 1 by silverfluter

silverfluter wrote:
ok.... another interim project.... we dug out the Nandinas(damndinas) in front of the porch. We dug pretty deep in order to get most of the roots. We got all, well... almost all, the roots out and I looked at the work... "Say... we have a pretty nice hole here... why not fill it with water instead of more dirt for a flowerbed???" DW said I been in the sun too long!! Anyways... the question is about having a pond so close to the foundation of the house. The house is on pier and beam and the top of the proposed pond would be well below floor level of the house. The pond would also be separated from the beam of the main foundation by 5 feet of concrete porch. The size of the pond would be about 7' X 4'. The plan is to have a falls start near the top of the side of the porch. Any and all comments are welcome..... Tom