Natural Swimming Pool within a fish pond - 09/04/12 01:28 PM
Hi Everyone,
New to the forum and I did search. I found a post by Robert Carter and some pics of his pond with a swimming pool on one end, which is close but not exactly what I have in mind.
My property is 3.6 acres, 400 x 300 feet, fairly level, heavily treed. Trying to get the lot next door to increase my land size to 6-7 acres but that's still only 500 x 700 feet. Lakefront is very expensive so I want to build my own pond and stock LMB and trout but the max pond size would be 200 x 200 feet (around 1 acre), maybe even less depending on whether I can get the other lot or not. The pond is just at the planning stage but I figure if the equipment is here digging the foundation, they might as well dig my pool/pond at the same time.
I'm absolutely fascinated by "natural swimming pools". Invented in Austria 25 years ago these pools have a marsh area either on the sides of the pool or are located at the end of the pool. Water gets sucked in from under this marsh area and pumped up into the pool. No chlorine and clear water if the pond is aerated properly and the marsh is done right. Lots of info from England, South Africa and Australia but these natural swimming pools are not too common here in Canada.
The natural swimming pool would be one part of the pond, with a marsh area at the end and then a big pond for the fish. Think of a figure 8 with the middle area being the marsh area and one circle being the pool and the other one a fish pond. That's kind of my idea for now. The fish pond would have to have liner and be aerated and pretty deep if I wanted trout but since this is cutting edge stuff, I wanted to post to this forum to see if anyone has any ideas on how to integrate a natural swimming pool with a fish pond.
Thanking you all for your help in advance.
Kind Regards,
Robert B.
New to the forum and I did search. I found a post by Robert Carter and some pics of his pond with a swimming pool on one end, which is close but not exactly what I have in mind.
My property is 3.6 acres, 400 x 300 feet, fairly level, heavily treed. Trying to get the lot next door to increase my land size to 6-7 acres but that's still only 500 x 700 feet. Lakefront is very expensive so I want to build my own pond and stock LMB and trout but the max pond size would be 200 x 200 feet (around 1 acre), maybe even less depending on whether I can get the other lot or not. The pond is just at the planning stage but I figure if the equipment is here digging the foundation, they might as well dig my pool/pond at the same time.
I'm absolutely fascinated by "natural swimming pools". Invented in Austria 25 years ago these pools have a marsh area either on the sides of the pool or are located at the end of the pool. Water gets sucked in from under this marsh area and pumped up into the pool. No chlorine and clear water if the pond is aerated properly and the marsh is done right. Lots of info from England, South Africa and Australia but these natural swimming pools are not too common here in Canada.
The natural swimming pool would be one part of the pond, with a marsh area at the end and then a big pond for the fish. Think of a figure 8 with the middle area being the marsh area and one circle being the pool and the other one a fish pond. That's kind of my idea for now. The fish pond would have to have liner and be aerated and pretty deep if I wanted trout but since this is cutting edge stuff, I wanted to post to this forum to see if anyone has any ideas on how to integrate a natural swimming pool with a fish pond.
Thanking you all for your help in advance.
Kind Regards,
Robert B.