This idea I like.
I might be digging a secondary pool tomorrow...
Just need to figure out logistics of drawing the cleaner water but as you wrote I should be able to use gravity... but I figure I could dig a pool and line it right be the edge.
I'll need to find a cover for it too so the ducks...
I considered French drain but just wanted the water to end up in the pond
Unfortunately the garden is on the other side of the property
Now i have been thinking about either
- collecting it for garden
- rerouting it and creating a small garden right there
- doing a hydroponic garden though that...
Thanks for the reply
The pond is very large but water is not clean at the moment, the bottom is dirt and sand seen here:
This spring/summer I am going to build both a waterfall on one side and a large ecological pool with plants/ ducks etc on the other (in theory... that's going to be a much...
So we are expanding the existing duck pen which is currently occupied by
2 pekins (M/F)
to include the other faction of 3 that is currently living in the large chicken coop run:
2 Cayuga (M/F)
1 Silver A (F)
and will also be able to hold the 4 to 5 more females that we will soon get to the...