BenignVanilla wrote:
OK gang, time to be McGyver as someone suggested in another thread. I am
getting this damn clay out of my pond this month. I plan to take a couple of
garbage cans and use them as settling chambers.

I am looking for some opinions on design. As this is a temporary filter just
for the clay, I am looking to do it cheap. I have two old garbage cans that
I can destroy.

My primary question now is how should the water flow? Up or down? I mean,
should I pump water into the bottom of the can, fill the can with filter
media, and have it overflow out the top or vice versa?

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BenignVanilla
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-- when I had my barrel filters I found that in at the bottom and out
near the top worked best the clay (Heavy stuff) stayed at the bottom
and the filter media caught a lot of the fines the beg problem was
channeling so had to clean quite often cheapest way to connect is a
couple of pvc sewer conectors for bulkheads

see my barrel filters or Jan Jordans demon pond filter for how to do it


good luck


John Rutz
Z5 New Mexico

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