"WeileMom" wrote in message
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Hi, we are setting up a barrel pond on our porch and could use a little
advice.
In our last house we had a small inground pond that we experimented with,
so
we know a little about how to take care of it. However, where we are
having
trouble seems to be the liner.
The half-whiskey barrel we bought was quite a bit bigger than the hard
plastic
liners so we decided to go with a plastic liner. We couldn't find a 5 x 5
liner pre-cut so we're trying black extra heavy duty plastic sheeting (its
6
ml). After getting the pond up and running late last night we discovered
this
morning that it seems to be leaking through some of the staves. I really
didn't think we had a hole in our liner so we're not sure where the water
is
coming from.
After reading all of the barrel info on the net that I could find it seems
to
me that our mistake was not to soak the barrel beforehand.
Does this sound right? Should we drain the pond and soak the barrel? Or
is
the liner we bought not going to hold water? We do have 3 goldfish to add
once
we solve the leak. Plus we have a small pump, filter, gravel and lily in
the
pond now.
Any suggestions or help is greatly appreciated!!
Thanks,
Nicole

Well for starters I wouldn't go with a 6 mil liner, but if it doesn't leak,
fine, except you seem to have a leak. Either the liner leaks and if so go
but a 5 foot section of 10 foot liner at Home Depot or wherever. But, if you
are reasonably sure the liner doesn't leak, then check any folds you made
fitting the plastic to the barrel. Perhaps one of the folds ended up below
water level causing the water to leak past that point. You could just watch
it and see how low the level goes.
JD
http://www.nrgy.com/pond.htm