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[exodusofficer]

My name is Barret. I'm the new assistant manager at a mini-golf course. We have two separate pond systems. Each consists of two concrete ponds connected by a narrow concrete river, with a waterfall at the top pond in each system. They are each something like 15,000-25,000 gallons (sorry I'm not more specific, the plans have been lost for years). The old managers never took care of the ponds, just let them get full of poorly patched cracks and cleaned them out when they started to smell (once every month or two). I intend to fix these up and fill them with plants and fish to keep them looking great through the entire season; these are really spectacular systems with serious potential. I have been keeping aquariums for 10 years or so, but am new to ponds.

[DrCase]

Welcome to the forum
It sound nice ..can you post a few pics for us to see

[Ian]

Hi Barret and welcome to the forums

[koikeepr]

Hey there! Looking to hear more about your gold course ponds and helping you out!

Welcome!

[exodusofficer]

Here are a few pictures. The ones with the dry reeds are two smaller pools along the causeway. I'm thinking of cleaning them out and making them into veggie/bog filters.

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[koikeepr]

The bigger one is pretty well brown, so you'll need to work on fixing that. The smaller ones that you want to turn into bogs do appear to have clear water from what I can see in the photos...

[exodusofficer]

Yeah, they're quite a mess right now. Once it's a little warmer we'll pump out all the water, power wash the concrete, and start patching the cracks. The large basin holds the water just fine, but the top one by the waterfall and the riverbed are just full of cracks.
The pump is pretty rusty too, I'm thinking I should sand it down and paint it with rustoleum primer and paint.

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[DrDave]

You may want to open those just a bit. maybe cut a "V", then use very thing thoroseal for your first coat to let it soak into the crack, then a second coat to fill the "V". You might need more than one thin application to seal the crack if it is large.

Some people used asphalt emulsion to seal ponds back 30 years ago, I'm not sure what they say about that now. It requires a lot of rinse and cure time before adding fish.