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Message: [QUOTE="mgmine, post: 320016, member: 5552"] I don't know if I would bother laying mortar. If you do there is a chance that you will see it and that will take away from the "look" and there won't be any benefit. You want to be able to move the rocks around to change the flow and the sound. Where I had to seam my stream I laid a float stone on top and it seems to work but my sloop is pretty good. Notice in this first picture how there is some water at the top. This is what happens in the stream, the water can come from an unexpected place and wash over the side. Even the placement of the rocks can make the stream leak. That is why you want to have the sides high enough and to have enough liner to bring it up higher if necessary. The second picture is the side of the pond. It was done like this because the yard was not level (off by a foot) and too much liner was showing. After the liner was in I had to pull it back and dig a ledge for the rocks to sit on. As far as filling the pond I would use the lake water and if there is anyway that you could use gravity then I would hook up an automatic filler using the lake water. [/QUOTE]