Pond Boss Forums AERATION Systems questions Will this Pump Work?

By the way, that wooden thing you see in the pictures is where I blocked the culvert and am going to put a tiny dock. This way I'll be able to get in and out of the water for swimming without disturbing too much muck and geting myself all full of it.

Just to the right of it you can see my new spillway which has the waterline running up it from the itsy-bitsy lower pool (where I have the water pump).

Glad to see it worked out for you. I have always had good luck with the company I sent you to.

Bob

Hey Bob,

Would you recommend using my old well pump extra water to pump water from the little pool on the other end of my spillway to the pond? Do you need more details on the pump? Please let me know, I have no idea on this.

It would probably work but well pump are not very good at passing debris and will probably clog up and burn up.

I have a filter over the intake, so nothing too huge will get sucked in. It does work, my real question is will it be economincal?

nql, great job. do you have a pic of the aerator in action/bubble action? also, sounds like you are trying to optimize your water into your pond. you are putting a lot of work on pumping the water from that small area to your main pond. i just had a quick suggestion. it doesn't look like you have a lot of runoff to your pond. but i do notice a gutter down spout on your porch area, but no gutters on your building closest to your pond. i thought maybe you could put gutters on it, then dig shallow trenches from the down spout exits, connect to plastic or pvc pipes and channel all that water to your pond. then cover up the pipe. you could maybe even converge all the pipes into a small area and have a nicely rock landscape area like a little waterfall or creek coming into your pond when it rains.

NYQUILLAMA

i received my bottom diffuser yesterday,how did you anchor your system to the bottom of the pond.it did not look like what i thought it would,i thought it would be in some type of case that i would sink to the bottom.thanks.

this small pump is actually creating a small surface boil 14' from the bottom?
Could you post some pics of this in action NyQuil?
This sounds like just the trick for my small pond also, since it's only about 10' deep and about 30'-40' in diameter!

Yes, the pump really is doing it. I have some pictures, I just need to host and post.

Methods of anchoring the diffuser to the bottom were actually discussed earlier in this very thread. Personally, I used a large planter bottom and some sakcrete for my base. I took pix of that too. I'll post them tonight.

Just purchased the same Gast pump (2050) for my small 1/3 acre pond. NyQuiLlama, you say you used a "large planter bottom and some sakcrete for my base." Is this easy to remove for service? Can you post some pictures or email me some pictures at msdog88@yahoo.com? I'm struggling trying to come up with an easy way to secure the diffuser to the bottom and yet make it easy to remove for service.

Would you still recommend the FlexAir 9" disc diffuser? I haven't purchased this yet... still trying to figure everything out.

Thanks for any help you could give me.

TB

I'm going to be using the same compressor as TB, Ny and others to aerate one of my ponds. I've listed some information below and will report back with the results when the system is running.

Pond: kidney shaped, average depth 10', estimated volume is 300,000 gallons.
Compressor: Gast Model 1532, 1.5 CFM open flow, 1 CFM @10 psi
Airline: 50' of 1/2" weighted poly tubing for each diffuser.
Diffusers: 2 - FlexAir 9" EPDM rubber disc, 0.5 mm slits. Surface area 0.4 sq. ft. Design flow 0.5 - 5.0 scfm.

There is no data on turnover rate for the diffuser however, from everything I've read here I'm confident it will work.

Just a follow up: Tested both diffusers the other day. The compressor will not handle both diffusers simultaneously. One diffuser is set at 8', the other at 11'. Each diffuser operates at 4 psi and according to manufacturer's data, the compressor is putting out 1.25 cfm. I'm happy with the results.

Russ

I have the gast rotary vane as a second pump, which I will use on my 1/3 acre pond to alternate with the larger one I bought before I found C & H. As Bob said, it is VERY low current draw for the cfm/psi combo.