Originally Posted By: Snipe
An observation here based on my experience lining my entire shore this way..
I would recommend obtaining true "rock" if doing more than 25-30% of shoreline.
Unless you need to raise pH some or increase alkalinity, in which case I found by using great amounts of chunk concrete, the high content of Calcium hydroxide (hydrated lime) in this concrete has shot me up from 7.3-7.4 to a constant 8-8.2 pH.
Some waters need it, others don't. If you're not doing 50% +, it may not have the effect that mine did doing the entire shore, but as stated above and in snrub's threads, the sedimentation (suspended) has gone away as soon as rock was completed.


In our area the soils are all acid. So crushed limestone is what I use to help lime the pond. The limestone does grow algae super well though, good or bad.


John

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