new owner of an old pond

[weeblebiker]

the round planter in the back yard was what I suspected, it's going to house our turtles and goldfish when back up and running. concrete is in great shape, unfortunetly I suspect it cracked after it was backfilled and allowed to freeze

 

[mgmine]

You're probably right about the crack. Hydraulic cement will fix it in an instant.

 

[Mmathis]

Hello and welcome! My iPad isn't loading your entire message, or the pic --- no, there it went!

That is a nice pond, or planter, but I wouldn't trust that concrete! If it was me, I would consider installing an EPDM liner. What is the pipe sticking up from the middle? Was that for a fountain?

And where to you live? If it's already frozen and cracked [as you suspect], then I would be afraid it would happen again, which you wouldn't want to happen if it was housing fish.

 

[Becky]

Hello and welcome aboard!

 

[weeblebiker]

I live in indiana, so the pond will be drained for the winter.
the little round spot on the bottom left of the pond is a drain to the storm sewer so draining and cleaning will be easy.that's how I got it so clean for the pic, the drain takes more flow than my hose could put out for several minutes. It looks like it used to have a pipe threaded in that was cut flush with the bottom, which I suspect was up to the water level.

I'm not sure what the center pipe is as there is no intake for a fountain, but when I tried to clean it out, I found I could push water into it for a few seconds until it backed up, then water would run back up and out for a few minutes, maybe a gallon plus of water input and return which is puzzling. I'm going to dig around the perimeter and see if I can find some plumbing. maybe it had some sort of well or cistern feed into the pond and drain into the storm sewer.