Water Gardening: The source of last week's diaster, 1 by BogweedBuck

BogweedBuck wrote:
I had to take a day and a half off from work last week to repair the damage from the most recent pond tragedy. While out of town the waterfall basin (a 125 gallon preform liner raised about 3 feet or so off the ground ) burst ... draining the entire pond proper and leaving me with quite a few casualties in both flora and fauna. The entire rubber liner was pushed a good foot above water level and all of the plants, fish, frogs, and god only knows what was pushed out of the pond in the process. (sorry, no pics of that mess ... looking for my camera was the last thing on my mind when we got home the airport that night)

Upon draining the bottom of the basin and removing all the plants, bio-media, etc., I found the following:

(what you see pushing through that 4+ inch crack is the corner of a 4x4 that I SERIOUSLY mis-positioned when cementing in the supports for this beast)