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Originally Posted by Vickie H.
how big is the pond you uncovered?
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Oh, its a quarter circle - 16 foot by 16 foot but just 1 foot deep ... too shallow for fun fish like koi,
but the goldfish and shebunkins have a blast in it. Tadpoles too, when I can get them.
Anyway, I found it in 2001 when I went to plant some veggies - hit concrete and found a shallow concrete pool kind of thing.
I took all the dirt I dug out of the pond and made a berm along side it - that has become a stone-lined creek , and last year I put a shallow basin in at the head of it for marshy plants ... Had to read up and figure out about pond pumps and such ...
So - I have a pump in the big pond that pumps through a bamboo "pipe" into the basin, it overflows and runs down the creek and spills into the big pond. About half the pump goes through that, the other half gets fed into the waterfall under the gargoyle. We wind up with 3 different waterfalls splashing - quite a nice varied sound. The birds and critters get a creek to splash and bath in, or drink from, the fish get the main pond, and its just a wonderful sound year round ... (I do shut off the creek in winter as it freezes up ... I change the hoses around so the main pond just recirculates and doesn't).
