"kathy" wrote in message
ups.com...
Chuck Rush made one out of an under the sink
filter. You can put adapters on the top of it to attach
to a garden hose. The replaceable filter should be
changed once a year. Let me see if I can pull up
his page address from google...
http://www.pondrushes.net/
and the filter is here

Not sure what all it would work on but the unit that
you buy at the store would say what it filters out.

When I add water I use the filter and I let it go out
very slowly and find a rock to run it over (just because
I'm sure, and I have, will forget it is running...) so far,
knock wood, I haven't had an incident with chlorine
poisoning.

Let us know if you build one and how it works!
kathy :-)


I also fill up my pond by adding water VERY slowly. I actually set the hose
attachment to mist and set this over the pond so that the mist 'rains' into
the pond and flows in over rocks and plants. I can also leave for some time
without the risk of overflow occurring in a short time while my attention
was elsewhere . Yes it does take a couple of hours to top off my pond that
is down 1/2 foot but I don't see that as a problem.. I have been doing this
for years with no trouble and we live on Long Island where I'm fairly
confident they put nasty stuff in the water.