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Hi Everyone,
I have been doing restoration of my backyard pond that has not been maintained for quite some time. I am looking for some help on setup and equipment to be used.
Background:
The pond is about 2500 gallons with an external pump located outside the pond. All the piping is underground but it seems to indicate 2 inlet pipes and 3 outlet pipes controlled by ball valves. The main inlet pipe just comes through a prefilter basket located in the pond. The 2nd inlet pipe was disconnected and leads to a drain at the bottom of the pond. I figure the previous owner had clogging issues and switched over to the main inlet pipe used now. I intend to leave it as is unless there are other reasons to have it connected? As for the prefilter basket, is just an enclosed basket enough or should there be filter media inside?
The outlet pipes.
One outlet pipe leads to the waterfall. In the waterfall basket, the pipe enters on the side from the bottom. For filtration, moving upward, there was a layer of lava rocks, a layer of small gravel, and then a couple filter pads. I’ve seen now where basically just bioballs in a bag plus a filter pad is used. I was wondering your recommendations are on what the better method is. I was going to keep the same method, but maybe enclose the rocks in separate mesh bag so it is easier to clean.
The second outlet pipe leads outside the pond into a pit of large rocks where I believe the purpose is just overflow or backwash. In this pit, there are two pipes, one is deeper and the other is about a foot higher. The 2nd outlet pipe is the one that is deeper. I don’t yet know the higher pipe leads; I think maybe it just soaks into the ground away from the pond.
I’m still trying to figure out where the 3rd outlet pipe leads, not sure yet if it leads to the same place as the 2nd outlet pipe or somewhere else.
I can upload some pictures or diagram if anybody would like to see them. Any help is appreciated
I have been doing restoration of my backyard pond that has not been maintained for quite some time. I am looking for some help on setup and equipment to be used.
Background:
The pond is about 2500 gallons with an external pump located outside the pond. All the piping is underground but it seems to indicate 2 inlet pipes and 3 outlet pipes controlled by ball valves. The main inlet pipe just comes through a prefilter basket located in the pond. The 2nd inlet pipe was disconnected and leads to a drain at the bottom of the pond. I figure the previous owner had clogging issues and switched over to the main inlet pipe used now. I intend to leave it as is unless there are other reasons to have it connected? As for the prefilter basket, is just an enclosed basket enough or should there be filter media inside?
The outlet pipes.
One outlet pipe leads to the waterfall. In the waterfall basket, the pipe enters on the side from the bottom. For filtration, moving upward, there was a layer of lava rocks, a layer of small gravel, and then a couple filter pads. I’ve seen now where basically just bioballs in a bag plus a filter pad is used. I was wondering your recommendations are on what the better method is. I was going to keep the same method, but maybe enclose the rocks in separate mesh bag so it is easier to clean.
The second outlet pipe leads outside the pond into a pit of large rocks where I believe the purpose is just overflow or backwash. In this pit, there are two pipes, one is deeper and the other is about a foot higher. The 2nd outlet pipe is the one that is deeper. I don’t yet know the higher pipe leads; I think maybe it just soaks into the ground away from the pond.
I’m still trying to figure out where the 3rd outlet pipe leads, not sure yet if it leads to the same place as the 2nd outlet pipe or somewhere else.
I can upload some pictures or diagram if anybody would like to see them. Any help is appreciated
