Pond Boss Forums AERATION Systems questions Waterfall

Sure it will help. Now whether or not the pump and resulting electricity charges will fit your budget is another story.

To get all of the circulation you will need (1 turn of the water per 24 hour period) you will need the following:

You will want to make the "stream" bounce over rocks, not flow down a "slide" to the pond. You will need a pump that can pump at least 65,000 gallons per hour at the head that you are looking at starting the stream at above the pond. It's best to suck the water from the very deepest part of the pond. i.e. if you are looking at starting the stream 12' above the pond surface, you need a pump that will pump 65,000 gph @ 12' head.

To move the same amount of water (or more) with a bottom diffusion system you will need a single Vertex diffuser placed in the deepest part of the pond and will need to run a 1/3 hp compressor that has a t least 2 cfm at 0 psi. Something along the lines of a Vertex Air 1 system or a PondLyfe 1 system. With a single Vertex membrane diffuser placed at the 11 foot depth you will move roughly 105,000 gph.

I'll let you do the math to see what would be cheaper to run for say 5 years even if the Vertex pump needs a roughly $100 rebuild after year 4.