Hello all,
Great to find this site
New to this site and pond building I did have a small pond in another home years ago but never paid much attention to it.
Have done lots of reading ,watched too many videos… am getting ready , to start digging…
Purchased a 20’x25’ 45mill edpm liner , 8500 gph pump , lights, a 36” Atlantic stainless steel spillway for a waterfall, was going to use a 50 gallon heavy gauge plastic barrel for a skimmer, which I would then pump to the spillway/waterfall, which was as going to raise with a rock berm up 2’ or so I was not planning on fish as was more thinking water feature style of pond.
I have come up with a few questions which I may be overthinking… I’m in zone 5 I believe Southern B.C. Right on Okanagan Lake between Kelowna and Penticton, very hot summers and some definite cold snaps of -20 Celcius and some snow in the winters.
Full sun , no real shade until evenings when the sun goes behind the house , can get pretty windy off the lake to. Desert style landscape with no lawn.
I’m concerned about filtering was hoping to just have the water skim , then be pumped up to the spillway to then waterfall back in to the pond. The more I read the more it seems that need some kind of bog?
Pond in the 10’x15’ range , 18” x 18” deep shelf on at least 2side down to a 4’ or so centre seems to be about as big as I can go with the liner I have. Plants to be minimal but happy to put some in if they will survive
Any further thoughts and advice.. am I missing anything crucial? Bog or no…
Thanks to all in advance for your thoughts,
Machine comes in the next day or 2 as the whole yard is being landscaped
Great to find this site
New to this site and pond building I did have a small pond in another home years ago but never paid much attention to it.
Have done lots of reading ,watched too many videos… am getting ready , to start digging…
Purchased a 20’x25’ 45mill edpm liner , 8500 gph pump , lights, a 36” Atlantic stainless steel spillway for a waterfall, was going to use a 50 gallon heavy gauge plastic barrel for a skimmer, which I would then pump to the spillway/waterfall, which was as going to raise with a rock berm up 2’ or so I was not planning on fish as was more thinking water feature style of pond.
I have come up with a few questions which I may be overthinking… I’m in zone 5 I believe Southern B.C. Right on Okanagan Lake between Kelowna and Penticton, very hot summers and some definite cold snaps of -20 Celcius and some snow in the winters.
Full sun , no real shade until evenings when the sun goes behind the house , can get pretty windy off the lake to. Desert style landscape with no lawn.
I’m concerned about filtering was hoping to just have the water skim , then be pumped up to the spillway to then waterfall back in to the pond. The more I read the more it seems that need some kind of bog?
Pond in the 10’x15’ range , 18” x 18” deep shelf on at least 2side down to a 4’ or so centre seems to be about as big as I can go with the liner I have. Plants to be minimal but happy to put some in if they will survive
Any further thoughts and advice.. am I missing anything crucial? Bog or no…
Thanks to all in advance for your thoughts,
Machine comes in the next day or 2 as the whole yard is being landscaped