Water Gardening: excavation- $15K -now what?, 1 by stevewater

stevewater wrote:
Good question, I think bentonite is too expensive for anything but patching.. My last waterfeature was on a hill, and I found liners, especially the rigid ones, really hard to work with,. -and hard to hide.. -for this one they would have been HUGE and heavy.. and expensive. The house isn't done, but the ponds are filling WAY ahead of expectations.. -I'll attach today's pic. -you can see that the little trench I dug to relieve the smaller pond is actually flowing.. -cause all the gutters and sump keep feeding it.. not much to look at,. -but with a few tons of big rocks... and some warm spring mornings.. this thing can work this way because the watershed is right, and the soil is clay.. I don't think I'll regret skipping the liner the way this thing is filling.