change, dramatic!!!, in less than 24 hs - 11/16/16 09:47 PM
Hi all. I posted a couple of post here some months ago. I have this quarry, and I intend to have clear water. So far, te treatment has been: benefical bacteria, removing muck from the bottom (a lot), aireation and introduced a lot of auquatic vegetation. The results have been really good!!!! water clarity went from only 50 cms to almost 4 mts!!! The quarry is big, 200X300 mts long, and average depth of 7 mts (2 mts in the shallowest part and 17 mts in the deepest part)
This is how the quarry looked this saturdar morning:
As you can see, the water has a nice blue color, almost cristal clear.
On sunday, there was a HUGE wind storm, some rain too, but really very little of it, but really a lot of wind, we never saw in the water the waves we saw that day, 1.5 mts waves, it looked like the real sea!
next morning I received a called from the landowner saying the water changed its color, and he sent me a picture. I really didnt belive the change could be that big, specially because the picture was taken less than 24 hs after the storm... I visited the place today to take a look: it is a desaster. The water not only changed its color, it is not clear anymore, I could sau you can see in the water no more than 20 cms away!
Here are some pictures:
My observations: the water is not green, it is actually like if it is milk... There is no water entry to the quarry, I mean there has not been any new water in the quarry. There is some kind of white powder in the water, you can see in the last picture, taken on the shore, there is that powder deposited on the rocks. Could this be suspended clay????
There has been storms in the palce in the last months of course, and for sure much bigger rains, and the water had never been afected in this way. last month we had like 20 days of raining and the water remained clear (I put grass oll over the shores). And this storm brought very little rain, so I can say rain was not the problem.
The only theory I have is that because of the wind direction and the really strong winds, the waves we saw hitted and area of quarry's walls where might be clay and that clay was taken and distributed all over the place????
If it is clay, it will go to the bottom? how fast? should I just wait or I should think in useing aluminium? if that is the "fast" solution, can someone tell me the amount of aluminium I need and the way to apply it?
Thanks in advance
This is how the quarry looked this saturdar morning:
As you can see, the water has a nice blue color, almost cristal clear.
On sunday, there was a HUGE wind storm, some rain too, but really very little of it, but really a lot of wind, we never saw in the water the waves we saw that day, 1.5 mts waves, it looked like the real sea!
next morning I received a called from the landowner saying the water changed its color, and he sent me a picture. I really didnt belive the change could be that big, specially because the picture was taken less than 24 hs after the storm... I visited the place today to take a look: it is a desaster. The water not only changed its color, it is not clear anymore, I could sau you can see in the water no more than 20 cms away!
Here are some pictures:
My observations: the water is not green, it is actually like if it is milk... There is no water entry to the quarry, I mean there has not been any new water in the quarry. There is some kind of white powder in the water, you can see in the last picture, taken on the shore, there is that powder deposited on the rocks. Could this be suspended clay????
There has been storms in the palce in the last months of course, and for sure much bigger rains, and the water had never been afected in this way. last month we had like 20 days of raining and the water remained clear (I put grass oll over the shores). And this storm brought very little rain, so I can say rain was not the problem.
The only theory I have is that because of the wind direction and the really strong winds, the waves we saw hitted and area of quarry's walls where might be clay and that clay was taken and distributed all over the place????
If it is clay, it will go to the bottom? how fast? should I just wait or I should think in useing aluminium? if that is the "fast" solution, can someone tell me the amount of aluminium I need and the way to apply it?
Thanks in advance