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Yay! The pond filled!!! Boo! It’s losing water!
Hello friends, I finally got the pond filled and I can’t tell you how happy it made me. Like tears of joy sort of happy!
I started filling the evening of Nov 18. I got it about halfway full and then turned the hose off overnight so as not to overfill. The next day, my roommate told me I needed to keep the hose out of the pond because it was siphoning the water out. He noticed the water level had receded several inches either overnight or during that morning so he removed the hose for me. When I started up the hose again, I made sure to keep the end of the hose out of the pond water and filled it up to the island.
Today the water level is lower again. I believe it is related to the waterfall. After looking around on this site, I see several posts talk about this issue.
I mentioned elsewhere (“Sealing Porous Coral Rock for Waterfall”) that I covered the path where water travels over the porous coral rock with pond liner, so I checked to see if there are places where the water is overflowing the liner. There are.
I left a lot of extra liner and folded/rolled the edges up around around the perimeter of the flow of water, but I just can’t manage to get the liner to stay so that the water doesn’t spill over it. Getting rocks to stay put over the folds in some spots has been tricky. I *think* this might be when using pond and stone foam might be appropriate?
If so, I am wondering if anybody has applied foam in 57 degree Fahrenheit weather? We are at 56 degrees right now and weather app tells me we’ll get up to 57 in about a half an hour, then it will cool down again. Tomorrow’s high is 59, but you never know if the forecast will pan out. The foam can indicates “best results between 60-90 degrees.”
Any suggestions for dealing with the overflow? Has anybody applied foam at 67 degrees with success? Thank you!
Hello friends, I finally got the pond filled and I can’t tell you how happy it made me. Like tears of joy sort of happy!
I started filling the evening of Nov 18. I got it about halfway full and then turned the hose off overnight so as not to overfill. The next day, my roommate told me I needed to keep the hose out of the pond because it was siphoning the water out. He noticed the water level had receded several inches either overnight or during that morning so he removed the hose for me. When I started up the hose again, I made sure to keep the end of the hose out of the pond water and filled it up to the island.
Today the water level is lower again. I believe it is related to the waterfall. After looking around on this site, I see several posts talk about this issue.
I mentioned elsewhere (“Sealing Porous Coral Rock for Waterfall”) that I covered the path where water travels over the porous coral rock with pond liner, so I checked to see if there are places where the water is overflowing the liner. There are.
I left a lot of extra liner and folded/rolled the edges up around around the perimeter of the flow of water, but I just can’t manage to get the liner to stay so that the water doesn’t spill over it. Getting rocks to stay put over the folds in some spots has been tricky. I *think* this might be when using pond and stone foam might be appropriate?
If so, I am wondering if anybody has applied foam in 57 degree Fahrenheit weather? We are at 56 degrees right now and weather app tells me we’ll get up to 57 in about a half an hour, then it will cool down again. Tomorrow’s high is 59, but you never know if the forecast will pan out. The foam can indicates “best results between 60-90 degrees.”
Any suggestions for dealing with the overflow? Has anybody applied foam at 67 degrees with success? Thank you!