![]() I was able to get that many because my stream has a fall of about 18 inches over about a 15 foot length.ĭog gone it, the pictures didn't show up in that last post. I had basically cut "steps" in the dirt ramp to make my waterfalls, and also to make some nice little pools behind each waterfall. I then put some coarse sand on the dirt, smoothed it up the sides of the rock walls, and laid my pond liner all the way down the stream. I then built rock walls on either side of the ramp, mortaring them in place - the rock walls got shorter as they neared the bottom pond. ![]() I compacted it really well, watered it, let it sit a while, compacted it some more, etc., to make sure it wouldn't slump over time. From the bottom pond to the top pond, I built up a dirt ramp about two feet wide, and went from ground zero to a height of about 14 inches. The bottom pond was still in the construction phase. Here are some pictures of when I first put my ponds/stream together: When this happened, I would have a boggy flooded section on my lawn where the bottom pond filled up with the stream water, and then overflowed. I had some bad wiring on the outlet used for my pump, and the GFI would trip on occassion. I'll add this - having a waterfall at the top pond, a couple of small waterfalls in the stream, and another smooth, low-ripple-effect waterfall going into the bottom pond provides awesome aeration of the water.įlowers, I have heard that it's a good idea to have your bottom pond big enough to hold the contents of your stream, plus the run-off of your top pond, just in case your pump shuts down and all the water from the stream, and the top couple of inches of water in your top pond, all runs down to the bottom pond. I'm reconstructing my bottom pond at this time, but I will post some pictures in a week or so, when I get it finished. I put a valve on the schedule 40 pipe near the top pond to regulate the water so that the water didn't run into the bottom pond faster than the pump could recirculate the water to the top pond. I built a rock formation around the stub-out to hide the pipe. ![]() Then I put my waterfall pump in the bottom pond, plumbed schedule 40 pipe to the top pond (buried the pipe underground), and stubbed the top of the pipe out for my waterfall at the top pond. I built a dirt ramp leading from the top one to the bottom, built up the sides with big rocks and some cement, laid EPDM liner in it, and built a spillway coming out of the top pond. Fifteen feet away, I have another pond set at ground level.
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