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simmonspond said:Wow. This is a tremendously awesome project. It humbles my small 10x12 plan . Interested to see how it all pans out. And please talk more about the bog.
What would you like to hear, ie see in type........lmao
The bog is going to be the length of the pond, around 6 foot wide, 20 inches deep.
the liner is continuous with the pond. We build a wood retaining wall between the pond and bog, around 19 inches tall. One part of that wall is 3 inches lower, that is where the water fall will be. It will not be a long drop to the surface of the pond, being that this is on the low end of our slope.
We are running two lines of 2 inch pvc with slots cut into it around 1/4 inch in width, (there is a picture in the beginning of this thread i think) decided on slots so less chance of it getting plugged.
This pvc will be put in with the slots facing down towards the liner, the pea gravel will be piled on top and planted.
The bottom filter, (we are building out of 2 inch pvc pipe) will drawn the bottom water to pump it through the bog. We are going to have two leaf filters before it enters the bog.
We are also going to have a skimmer (sorry drdave, I know you don't like them) it to will draw water that will enter the bog, the skimmer has its own leaf basket.
If need be we will do a prefilter, but without a fish load I think this set up will work ok without it.
It is a very large bog filter, but I love plants and it will look great (well once we get plants in it)
The bog is the part with the carpet pad.
Any questions ask away.