OzarksGuy
Pond in Use
Have a great Thanksgiving, everyone. I'm new here, and have a showcase item on the old spring pool in the Ozarks we are cleaning up. The pool lies about sixty feet downstream of a spring that flows continuously throughout the year with minimum flow around 30 gpm. Old timers in the area say the pool is what's left of a gravel pit, most of what was filled back in with overburden and stone that had been mixed in with the gravel. The pool either was left, or washed out during heavy rains when the spring likely flows somewhere above 500 gpm. The pool was full of stones ( see pictures at Showcase) and muck from decayed leaves, but it looked like it had some potential, so our family got to work with picks and shovels this past summer.
We ended up this fall with what you see in the lower picture. It started out as in the first pic.
You can see more on the Showcase, "Coldwater Pool Cleanup".
I'd love to see what others have done with cleanups, and also get your ideas for plantings and other landscape features we could add. Thanks.
We ended up this fall with what you see in the lower picture. It started out as in the first pic.
I'd love to see what others have done with cleanups, and also get your ideas for plantings and other landscape features we could add. Thanks.