On Wed, 20 Jun 2007 15:16:10 CST, Kurt wrote:

How often do you do this? I'm trying to have a pond about that size that
only requires a "sediment suck" on a minimal basis - without removing
anything.

Put in a bottom drain to filter and you won't ever have to drain the pond
to clean, it will all get sucked out continuously to the filter. ~ jan

Was hoping to avoid rebuilding the pond (major undertaking). Reel's tips
are probably what I need to do.

I misunderstood, you said you were trying to have a pond that size, I
thought you were in the building stage. I have a retro-fit bottom drain
that doesn't go thru the liner (diagram on my filter page), perhaps that is
an option? ~ jan
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