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Old 06-02-2003, 02:41 AM
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Default Settlement Tanks

I have my waterfall/veggie filter dump completely into one of those round
preformed ponds, then it exits out 2 - 2" pipes into another waterfall. I
have anacharis and penny wort and other plants in the round pond part. I
can only say that I have alot of junk that settles here and it is my only
form of filtration. I have not had green water since I built the thing and
I am in zone 9 in full sun.


"BenignVanilla" wrote in
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Is there a sizing algorithm for settlement tanks?

I am planning on a 2000 gallon pond with two bottom drains that will be
piped to a settlement tank. Another pipe will connect from the settlement
pipe to a pump that will be submerged in my veggie filter. The output of

the
pump will be in the veggie filter which will flow down to the pain pond.

I was thinking of burying one or two 5 gallon buckets for the settlement
tanks. Would be cheap and easy. Would this be big enough to allow for some
SOME settling before the pipes dump into the filter? My intent is to have
the sediment dropped into/used by the veggie filter, but I don't want to
connect the drains directly to my pump for fear of clogging.

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