The Plan

There was an existing pond built when I moved in a few months ago, but it was in bad shape. The husband of the previous owner had died a few years earlier and the widow didn’t do much more than washing a sponge pre-filter and feed the fish.

The existing pond consisted of two separate systems. They had the first one built and it had a Bio-Falls feeding a river that emptied into a 8 by 10 pond with a skimmer and submerged pump system. The second was added on by the previous owner and was nothing more than a 10 by 16 lined hole with a submerged filter and pump.

My plan is to connect the two existing holes into one larger pond using rebar and concrete instead of liner. I will remove the Bio-Falls and replace it with an external bead filter. Remove the existing skimmer and pump unit and replace it with a new skimmer and external pump and install two bottom drains.

Here are a couple of pictures of the original pond and the plan.