Lets talk water features back into the pond! - 08/09/16 07:17 PM
Ok, so I have a pond and have read up on here a lot. I now have a diffuser system thats up and running and have a lot of small LMB fry.
My pond is approx two acres in size when full but gets smaller in late summer and fall.
My wife would love a sitting area near the pond to sit, BBQ close by and relax.
I have an idea to build a small dry river bed from the top corner of my dam area that leads down to the pond. This at the longest will be 20 feet or so and when the pond if full a 1/4 of that.
In in serious clay area and when the pond subsides, its not near as pretty in this particular corner as when its full. If I build this area and the dry river bed, that will act as a pond waterfall area when turned on, it will remedy this. I will simply run a pump into the pond then up to the water feature top, then make a river bed on a pond liner down to the pond and fill in what I think is attractive, rocks, gravel, ect.
That said I have no knowledge on pumps or the items needed for this and I dont see a category here for this?
Im looking for what sizes I need to do a decent size water feature, maybe 4 feet wide so its obvious water is pouring out and streaming back into the pond. This wont be running all the time and will be for when we are hanging out. There are so many water pump folks selling items I have no idea what company is good or who to stay away from.
Below are two pics of my pond during different times of the year and of something similar that I want in the way of a water feature. Im just looking at the stream portion as the stream would poun into my pond.
My pond is approx two acres in size when full but gets smaller in late summer and fall.
My wife would love a sitting area near the pond to sit, BBQ close by and relax.
I have an idea to build a small dry river bed from the top corner of my dam area that leads down to the pond. This at the longest will be 20 feet or so and when the pond if full a 1/4 of that.
In in serious clay area and when the pond subsides, its not near as pretty in this particular corner as when its full. If I build this area and the dry river bed, that will act as a pond waterfall area when turned on, it will remedy this. I will simply run a pump into the pond then up to the water feature top, then make a river bed on a pond liner down to the pond and fill in what I think is attractive, rocks, gravel, ect.
That said I have no knowledge on pumps or the items needed for this and I dont see a category here for this?
Im looking for what sizes I need to do a decent size water feature, maybe 4 feet wide so its obvious water is pouring out and streaming back into the pond. This wont be running all the time and will be for when we are hanging out. There are so many water pump folks selling items I have no idea what company is good or who to stay away from.
Below are two pics of my pond during different times of the year and of something similar that I want in the way of a water feature. Im just looking at the stream portion as the stream would poun into my pond.