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(Continuation of an
earlier question)-- Thanks for the well wishes. I took
the whole pond apart (15 tons of boulders tossed up on the
perimeter of the pond), this past weekend leaving only the
gravel in the bottom (6 tones of Alabama pebbles). There surely
was a leak - a couple in fact, ripped from the heavy boulders
rolled into place under the waterfall. When I rolled the liner
back, I noticed that I was able to stick my finger into the
moist clay like Jell-O, where as the rest of the pond area
was dry and hard so I concentrated on poking my fingers up
the wall until the clay/dirt was harder and translated that
to the liner and narrowed down the area to located the tear
in the liner. I also noticed a build up of water under the
liner leaving an ever moving water bubble to work around.
The water actually came in handy as I able to move the water
bubble around looking for springs to spurt up had there been
a hole on the bottom. No holes. We patched the 1/4 - 1/2 rips
on both sides of the liner and quadrupled lined the area where
the heavy boulders would be placed and replaced all the stones.
With both garden hoses running for five and half hours I was
able to get the pond running again and as of last night to
now, have not noticed a drop in the water level.
It was a lot of work, but the assurances that it was done
right from the mistakes learned will leave to many years
of enjoyment. All that is left is tucking the liner properly
and landscaping.
Thanks again for your advice. It was not fun building the
pond twice - by I'll chalk it up to "lesson learned" - the
hard way.
Congratulations, Drew,
You did it the Hard Way, but you did it right. Too many folks
assume that their liner is indestructible, and toss those big
rocks around without thinking. A common mistake is to set the
rocks on the bottom so they look pretty, forgetting that they
will all be *under water* and thus invisible, and also forgetting
the mass of what's going on top of them. Any sharpish edges
go right through the rubber.
Ah, well. The greatest sport a Ponder has is
telling "Boy, was I stupid" stories on himself.
Bob Passovoy
President
MPKS
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