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Help! My performed pond is floating!
I created a raised garden in my yard and put a small 80 gallon
preformed pond in it. I packed topsoil all around it as I filled it with water. This all worked great until I turned the drip system in the garden on. The pond just floated up out of the hole!! Are there any suggestions as to how to correct this? Can I put the pond in with concrete around it? Please help!! Thanks, Amy |
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Help! My performed pond is floating!
does it have water in it?
Amy wrote in message om... I created a raised garden in my yard and put a small 80 gallon preformed pond in it. I packed topsoil all around it as I filled it with water. This all worked great until I turned the drip system in the garden on. The pond just floated up out of the hole!! Are there any suggestions as to how to correct this? Can I put the pond in with concrete around it? Please help!! Thanks, Amy |
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Help! My performed pond is floating!
On Stardate : [-29]0128.97
-Sun13Apr03-2103 Michael Ware wrote: Amy wrote in message om... I created a raised garden in my yard and put a small 80 gallon preformed pond in it. I packed topsoil all around it as I filled it with water. This all worked great until I turned the drip system in the garden on. The pond just floated up out of the hole!! Are there any suggestions as to how to correct this? Can I put the pond in with concrete around it? Please help!! Thanks, Amy does it have water in it? I was wondering the same thing, but I notice she said "packed topsoil as I filled it..." So I guess so. Funny, it should be heavy enough to stay put if it is full. Maybe take out the topsoil and pour concrete in its place? -- QUIPd 1.02: (110 of 622) - That boy doesn't know the meaning of the word "fear". In fact, - I've seen his grades, and that boy doesn't know the meaning of - lots of words. - - Bobby Bowden ##409 # 9:03pm up 23 days, 9:07, 5 users, load average: 0.21, 0.45, 0.36 |
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Help! My performed pond is floating!
my suggestion is to take out the preformed pond, dig the hole a bit deeper,
put a perforated pipe in the hole that leads to a place where, if any water gets under the pond, it will drain out to a lower area, and then add some gravel to the hole. then put the pond back in the hole and level it. that should allow for drainage of water under the pond. mad -- Of all the things I've ever lost I miss my mind the most. From: (Amy) Organization: http://groups.google.com/ Newsgroups: rec.ponds Date: 13 Apr 2003 11:35:02 -0700 Subject: Help! My performed pond is floating! I created a raised garden in my yard and put a small 80 gallon preformed pond in it. I packed topsoil all around it as I filled it with water. This all worked great until I turned the drip system in the garden on. The pond just floated up out of the hole!! Are there any suggestions as to how to correct this? Can I put the pond in with concrete around it? Please help!! Thanks, Amy -----= Posted via Newsfeeds.Com, Uncensored Usenet News =----- http://www.newsfeeds.com - The #1 Newsgroup Service in the World! -----== Over 80,000 Newsgroups - 16 Different Servers! =----- |
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Help! My performed pond is floating!
Yes.. I said it did: "I packed topsoil all around it as I filled it
with water." "Michael Ware" wrote in message ... does it have water in it? Amy wrote in message om... I created a raised garden in my yard and put a small 80 gallon preformed pond in it. I packed topsoil all around it as I filled it with water. This all worked great until I turned the drip system in the garden on. The pond just floated up out of the hole!! Are there any suggestions as to how to correct this? Can I put the pond in with concrete around it? Please help!! Thanks, Amy |
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Help! My performed pond is floating!
Amy, How about if you remove the pond then get the water
out of the hole? Sounds like ground water is floating your pond out of the hole. According to Helen Nash's book "The Complete Pond Builder" the Chapter on Drainage says to put down several inches of crushed stone then sand should help. Also she talks about digging a trench (this is what I did to my pond) about a foot from the pond and putting down 4 inch drainage pipe... cover with rock and then sod. I do rcommend buying Helen's book ... what a find it is! Nedra in Missouri http://www.geocities.com/Heartland/Pines/4836 http://community.webshots.com/user/nedra118 "jammer" wrote in message ... On 13 Apr 2003 11:35:02 -0700, (Amy) wrote: I created a raised garden in my yard and put a small 80 gallon preformed pond in it. I packed topsoil all around it as I filled it with water. This all worked great until I turned the drip system in the garden on. The pond just floated up out of the hole!! Are there any suggestions as to how to correct this? Can I put the pond in with concrete around it? Please help!! Thanks, Amy That's about what i have. I can't imagine it floating with water in it! I would freak. This may give me a nightmare tonight. |
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Help! My performed pond is floating!
It floated full of water?
Do you have a pic? Yes you need drainage, "Nedra" wrote in message rthlink.net... Amy, How about if you remove the pond then get the water out of the hole? Sounds like ground water is floating your pond out of the hole. According to Helen Nash's book "The Complete Pond Builder" the Chapter on Drainage says to put down several inches of crushed stone then sand should help. Also she talks about digging a trench (this is what I did to my pond) about a foot from the pond and putting down 4 inch drainage pipe... cover with rock and then sod. I do rcommend buying Helen's book ... what a find it is! Nedra in Missouri http://www.geocities.com/Heartland/Pines/4836 http://community.webshots.com/user/nedra118 "jammer" wrote in message ... On 13 Apr 2003 11:35:02 -0700, (Amy) wrote: I created a raised garden in my yard and put a small 80 gallon preformed pond in it. I packed topsoil all around it as I filled it with water. This all worked great until I turned the drip system in the garden on. The pond just floated up out of the hole!! Are there any suggestions as to how to correct this? Can I put the pond in with concrete around it? Please help!! Thanks, Amy That's about what i have. I can't imagine it floating with water in it! I would freak. This may give me a nightmare tonight. |
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Help! My performed pond is floating!
"ponder" wrote in message ... It floated full of water? Do you have a pic? Yes you need drainage, "Nedra" wrote in message rthlink.net... Amy, How about if you remove the pond then get the water out of the hole? Sounds like ground water is floating your pond out of the hole. According to Helen Nash's book "The Complete Pond Builder" the Chapter on Drainage says to put down several inches of crushed stone then sand should help. Also she talks about digging a trench (this is what I did to my pond) about a foot from the pond and putting down 4 inch drainage pipe... cover with rock and then sod. I do rcommend buying Helen's book ... what a find it is! Nedra in Missouri http://www.geocities.com/Heartland/Pines/4836 http://community.webshots.com/user/nedra118 "jammer" wrote in message ... On 13 Apr 2003 11:35:02 -0700, (Amy) wrote: I created a raised garden in my yard and put a small 80 gallon preformed pond in it. I packed topsoil all around it as I filled it with water. This all worked great until I turned the drip system in the garden on. The pond just floated up out of the hole!! Are there any suggestions as to how to correct this? Can I put the pond in with concrete around it? Please help!! Thanks, Amy That's about what i have. I can't imagine it floating with water in it! I would freak. This may give me a nightmare tonight. Another point to bear in mind is if the hole is retaining water so well do you need a lined. I know some people who dug a large hole in a damp part of their garden in order to build a pond, the hole filled up with water it's self and they still don't have a liner in it. Andy |
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