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Message: [QUOTE="Shdwdrgn, post: 131543, member: 672"] [b]IT WAS A DISASTER[/b]... for all those spiders who have been hiding out in the folds of the liner! :) But the waterfall itself turned out awesome, and now it's nearly (finally) done. I still have a bit of trimming to do to finish everything up, but now its close enough that I can start putting in plants. Beginning this morning, I shut down the pumps and got the cedar planks screwed into place. The 2x2 sticking out the left side was placed in case I got water running behind the falls again, I wanted to make sure the cedar boards helped prevent the wall from falling into the pond. [img]http://www.sourpuss.net/projects/pond/2012/2012-07-19/.show/img_6992.jpg[/img] For anyone trying to plan out their own waterfall, my rock wall is about 5 feet wide. Here is what it looks like with a single 2900gph pump running (with head-height, approximately 2500gph flow). Not too bad a look, the water covers the entire wall and gives a bit of splash, without being very loud. [img]http://www.sourpuss.net/projects/pond/2012/2012-07-19/.show/img_6995.jpg[/img] Of course, I have two 2900gph pumps, one feeding each filter. So here's the shot with both pumps running... Because of the flow from either side, a lot of the water ended up in the middle, causing a torrent to flow off that bottom step. [img]http://www.sourpuss.net/projects/pond/2012/2012-07-19/.show/img_6998.jpg[/img] After placing some river rocks behind the falls, and topping it off with the pea gravel, the flow is now more spread out. By adjusting the rocks around the top of the falls, I can change where the water falls. What I find really interesting is that the flow of water is now so smooth that you can actually see the yard reflected in the sheet of water (the green shimmer). [img]http://www.sourpuss.net/projects/pond/2012/2012-07-19/.show/img_7000.jpg[/img] When I fired up the pumps this morning, the water smelled horrible. Sitting for a couple days was enough for all the waste in the bottom of the barrels to turn putrid, but it cleared up in about a half an hour. Now that I'm done dumping gravel into the top, the rest of the pond should clear up by this evening or tomorrow. [/QUOTE]

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