Hi! I'm from Buenos Aires, Argentina.
I'm new with this, I already did an excavation pond. The shape is like a peanut, size is about 100m length x 20-35m width (300 ft x 60-100ft). Depth is 1,7 m (6 ft) with an angle of 1:3.
I estimate the area in 2.500 square-meters (0.6 acres), and around 1.000.000 gallons.
I have a swimming pool near the pond and I wonder if I could make the discharge of the pool into the pond. I know this is not recommendable, but is the easy option.
The discharge will be basically 2:
1- around 100 gallon a week cleaning the dirt in bottom of the swimming pool during the summer.
2- Empty the whole pool maybe 2 or 3 times during the summer (10.000 gallons).
I pretend to use the pond for recreation (swimming, boat, etc) and some fishes (I hope to barbecue some of those once a while )
Will that discharge be that harmful to the fishes?. I should treat the swimming pool with any chemical right before the discharge to compensate the effect of the Clorox?
I can do it? In that case, which cares I should take?
Sorry for my bad English!
Pablo
Here some photos (2 feet depth, 4 feet to go! )
