Wading area

[pondpal]

I have a large pond with sandy bottom and I want to build a wading area with comfortable bright colored floor pad and I may need to adjust the height
any ideas for a beginner with a low budget

 

[Mmathis]

Hello and welcome! Not sure I understand…. Can you post pics?

 

[j.w]

@pondpal
What height, where do you need to adjust?

 

[combatwombat]

Share some photos of your pond and we can give you some ideas.

 

[addy1]

Welcome to the forum!

Pictures really help.

 

[Dave Cee]

I have a large pond with sandy bottom and I want to build a wading area with comfortable bright colored floor pad and I may need to adjust the height
any ideas for a beginner with a low budget

The herons and other wading birds may well appreciate your efforts. The fish, frogs and turtles not so much...
You have small children and/or grandchildren, right?

 

[pondpal]

here are the pics sorry for the delay
as you can see this needs a real cleaning
thanks for the feedback

 

[GBBUDD]

I'D bet a futile attempt to remove those plants . a battle you will have

 

[j.w]

I'D bet a futile attempt to remove those plants . a battle you will have

Okay Yoda

 

[YShahar]

Looks like you could simply dig out a bit on the near side, maybe add a liner held down on the water side with large boulders and then add lots of small river rock for walking on. The boulders holding down the pondward side of the liner would also delineate where the wading area ends and the pond proper begins.

 

[GBBUDD]

The way we use to do it was to take an d spring mattress weight it down Evernly and drag it accross the bottom then lots and lots of raking we tried dragging a net but caught so much it was too much once your lose to done with clean up on the one side

 

[GBBUDD]

Looks like you could simply dig out a bit on the near side, maybe add a liner held down on the water side with large boulders and then add lots of small river rock for walking on. The boulders holding down the pondward side of the liner would also delineate where the wading area ends and the pond proper begins.

Better install one super thick underlayment if your going tho cover over that vegetation. The impossible task will be installing enough pipes for the water to bleed out from under the liner . And them the tons of rock needed to hold it down to the bottom .

 

[YShahar]

Better install one super thick underlayment if your going tho cover over that vegetation. The impossible task will be installing enough pipes for the water to bleed out from under the liner . And them the tons of rock needed to hold it down to the bottom .

So how about just dredging out a shallow zone and leaving it unlined? Looks like the water table is high enough that you don't have to worry about not having water in it. Put in a deep layer of sand and pea gravel, and just assume you'd need to do regular weeding to keep it sandy/rocky.

 

[GBBUDD]

So how about just dredging out a shallow zone and leaving it unlined? Looks like the water table is high enough that you don't have to worry about not having water in it. Put in a deep layer of sand and pea gravel, and just assume you'd need to do regular weeding to keep it sandy/rocky.

thats what i said in the [post] above using the spring mattress and drag it across the bottom