It's raining today and has been, overnight. The pond is still holding water, but not 100%. The ripples out from where the flowforms discharge into the water do seem to be causing a small amount of lap erosion on the banks, opposite. Still seems to be a lot of bentonite in suspension, too.
I speculate on what winter temperatures will do.
The water is only around 12-18 inches deep, so probably stays quite warm. With that and the supernatant inflows, we likely have a fairly nutrient-rich situation, as evidenced in the pix, below:
That's the biocycle unit emptying at the time the pic was taken.
That's looking back the other way, after the discharge has stopped.
A bit like lime ripple icecream.
The weeping willow (salix babylonica) is much the same shade of green.
For about a week, the water went green, earlier in the season. Then after a week or 10 days, the green vanished over 3-4 days. But now it's back.
I'm looking into the idea that anthropic suggested,
earlier in this thread: a floating nutrient-stripping island. So far, I haven't been able to find any NZ presence for the outfit he mentioned. Ah, well, there's always DIY.
