Quote: I was looking at them on youtube as well. I found an 8 ft kiddie plastic pool at Lowes in December for $5! I"m going to use it inn the spring and put one of those kitchen sink drain strainers in it like one of the videos showes. Loosen up the drain, let it drain out. put it back in, fill up! easy, no lifting...
Lynzie how is your pool working? I know you did a lot of work on it. I live on a limestone bed, and we had, they say, 5 hand dug wells on the property, long ago for the cow farm, We found one under the patio, and the water height was higher than the top of our cellar ceiling. So, I'm thinking if I can convince hubby to connect the back hoe to the tractor, we could dig a little pond and it would fill up with water naturally. Only thing is it would have to have some kind of run off contraption...dunno.
By the way, when we redid the patio, we had to do something about the well, previous patio was done with a trap door over the opening of the well, we didn't want that, which was 8 feet from the house foundation, and of course, the "brilliant" bulldozer people, instead of filling it up with rock, dug it up, and it flooded the basement...I wasn't there when it was done.
See now if I was the neighbor I wouldn't mind I mean who stops the wildlife from using the stream? I mean for all you know could be a dead deer 1/4 mile up stream laying in it already. Most people don't drink the stream water and if they do they need to filter/disinfect it any ways. If the stream is a steady moving stream it will break the poo down and carry it away just as if a wild duck/ decided to live in the stream. Now if you have like 100 ducks and your neighbor drinks the water I could see that might be a problem if the water don't move fast enough to sorta self filter alittle. Unless your on top of a mountain drinking straight from a spring something has already pooed, stepped, died, in the water. Even then who knows could be fish under ground pooing in it. I mean they find new life in caves underground all the time.Hi, I hope my post didn't upset you...I tried to be funny, sometimes it doesn't work. I hope it works out for you. You can advertise that your food comes from the cleanest animals in New York..no joke!
You would think ducks are clean, I mean they are swimming in the water, grooming themselves all day, but if you could see the amount of wet stinky poop that comes out of them, Oh my....I am having my first experience with waterfowl, and the part of the name "fowl" should be spelled "foul". Talk about lotsa poop. I also have Sebastapol geese. Even bigger poops..I now understand why they say don't let your animals swim in streams & ponds. They pollute the water so fast. Also, a new wrinkle is that if you have a stream that runs through your property, onto others properties, they say you cannot let your animals in it because it will pollute your neighbors stream. Makes sense.
I'm glad I won't be tempted to let mine loose, although I don't have a stream "on" my property, my northern boundary is a stream that is quite large so I have to fence it off. Although wild ducks and cranes use it.
Well this is what it looked like most recently before everything started sinking in. See that 3rd bushel of grass from the left? that was planted about a foot from the edge of the pond, you can see how much of the mud has fallen in in front if that grass.
This is just what mine does, I have water that runs off from the spring in the mountain, never stops running, never freezes and this is what comes into the pond and exits the pond. The pond is going to need some updating this Spring. Lots of mud has sunk into it from the edges, it's become wider because of this and has caused rocks to fall in, edges to droop, it's just a mess right now. I've already done a temporary fix on it once.
