Pond Edge

[Big Lou]

While looking at JW's pond photos that the pond's edge is undetactable due to stones seeming projecting into the water. Could JW or someone else explain how this is done?

 

[addy1]

Dig down the side, 6 inches or so, make a shelf about a foot or so wide, bring the liner up that edge. Stack rocks on the liner, down in the water and up over the edge covering the liner at the edge. You can also fold the liner edge back and place rocks over it too.

Somewhere in here waterbug posted a nice drawing, think it was him..............I did the upslope and edges of my pond that way also.

You want to have the edge low enough to account for fluctuation in the water level.

 

[addy1]

lousy drawing, but it shows what I meant water would be over the rocks. But not higher than the liner edge.

 

[Mucky_Waters]

Addy basically explained it. I have posted the picture below before (also a lousy drawing). The idea is to have a small shelf (or two) below the water level for rocks to sit on, and start overlapping the rock until they come up out of the water. Most people end up doing the pond edge like the image on the left and you end up seeing an unnatural looking ring of liner all around the pond.

 

[addy1]

Thanks, all I could remember was it was a picture that explained it well.

 

[Big Lou]

Thanks to you both. Some areas of my pond are built with a shelf, others not. I'll try to design up a adaptive add-on shelf. I'll post my ideas for your critique.

 

[j.w]

Yep the way I did it was just make a little stair and put some rocks on then run liner up and over the pond edge w/ more rocks on top. Fish love to nibble in the cracks and crevices of the rocks. Baby fish can hide and you can't see the liner............it's a win, win, win :razz:

 

[icerabbit]

I will keep this in mind for next year's pond project

Thanks for sharing