The average person would have to get a second mortgage on their house
to buy just one roll of the bentonite matting. Its high dollar. Yes it
does get cheaper the more you buy, but to get to that point you would
have a humongus pond, or would that be lake.. Bentonite overall is
cheap to buy, but that does not apply to the mat by any means. I had
talked to a company abaout it, and they basically did not recomend it
for a typical pond, especially if anything got planted in it, and it
also requires a lot of care and proper preparations before it can be
put in place. Its more suited to waterproofing subgrade walls etc, and
making contained lagoons or catch basins or prevent l;eeching of stuff
out of these basins etc........


On Sat, 30 Apr 2005 00:37:42 +0000, Koitoy
wrote:

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Wrote:
=== I'm working on a leak in my pond (finally). I understand that volclay
=== may be used to plug the hole. Advice? Source? Problems?
=== Thanks.
=== Pete
===
===Are you talking about sodium bentonite? I love the stuff. Haven't
===used it for a leak- but I have it around my waterfall and also rebuilt
===an edge with it. There are a few sites about sodium bentonite and also
===the product bentomat. This is sodium bentonite woven with fabric- they
===use it to line landfills and huge ponds. Haven't found a supplier
===though. Tidy Cat unscented clumping cat litter is 100% sodium
===bentonite.


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