Category: Pond

Bunyip water levels and problems with the pond

During the time that the workers were digging the pond, I was very busy with work. At least that is my excuse for why the pond isn’t level now. 😉 Over the weekend, I was reading up on a number of resources for digging ponds and discovered this very good PDF about building natural swimming…


Swimming ponds and liners

I wrote before about the completion of the pond digging and since then I’ve begun work on the first test pump for the wetland filtration system. Sourcing the washed gravel and sand to use as a growing medium for the plants in the biofilter has turned out to be a bit difficult, so I am…


Pond digging mostly complete

Just figured I’d send a quick pic of the pond digging. This should be done in a few days and then we will begin the biofiltration zone construction.