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?

Flow up probably works better as you've then got gravity working in your
favour. However, flow down is easier to set up as you don't need to
worry about sealing your bulkheads against 3 feet of water.

Whatever filter media you use, try and get something easy to clean out
as you'll probably find it clogs up before the pond is cleared.

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Matt
Matt at Matt The Rat dot com