I recently dug a 1/3 acre pond and had a liner installed. I thought my ground was pretty flat but it's not. The pond was dug down with steep sides and the liner installed with the tops buried in a 4' deep trench at native ground level. It is full of water and I am at the very top of the liner on the low side and about to spill over but on the high side I have liner showing and it is unsightly. It is so steep trying to cover with dirt results in it sliding down into the pond. Any ideas how to cover this up? Ideally I would like to plant grass all the way to the waters edge.
Any ideas how to cover these edges of my pond liner?
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SkeeterFood
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You'll probably have to look around for a geotextile fabric that is coarse enough to hold some of the dirt in place, then wait for vegetation to help hold even better. Nothing is gonna stay in place very well against that slick surface. Could also place some larger rock, but that would be a LOT of work!!
rustyshakelford
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Off topic but that thing filled up fast! Rain or pump? Doesn't look like much erosion around it so I'm at a loss. Seemed like just the other day you were posting the progress pics of it
What'd the liner run if you don't mind sharing?
Brett
What'd the liner run if you don't mind sharing?
Brett
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any rock you place on it, will just slide down into the pond.
you might try a retraining wall. such as 6"x6" rough cut lumber most hardware stores have this. drop them right into the water, and put a 2 to 3 layers up. and then back fill. behind the retraining wall. (make sure you put in dead men) dead men are posts that stick back into the dirt. to help keep the wall from falling into the pond.
other option "meh" forget keyword. you put extra rock into concrete and then smear it on a 1" to 2" thick if that. and let it cure i want to say 15 minutes to 30 minutes, and before it has a chance to actually really cure hard. take a garden hose and wash away the top layer of concrete, so the rocks show up. and concrete is below holding it all together.
drop a single layer of 6x6s around pond. and cut liner right off at the 6x6's. perhaps making a little trench to drop the 6x6's in. and using the 6x6's to hold some dirt/rock out of pond at same time hold the liner. would strongly advise doing a sandwich approach were ya use say a 2x4 and 6x6, and drive some nails/screws through 2x4 into 6x6 with liner in between. if you roll the liner edge around the 2x4 a couple times before the sandwiching the liner will "hold" better and not slip out / tear from nails being put in.
the liner will be a slip and slid anything under the water once moss and everything else begins to grow on it. and it will grow on it. if you are stocking with fish, you might consider pulling back liner more into the water, and making a "large shallow trench", then put liner back down, and then fill with rock, and bring the rock up above water line some. the rock can help with dogs/animals from puncturing liner as they get into it to drink / swim / cool off in the summer.
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with everything said above.
--being able to hold liner above water line needed
--protection of liner from animals including humans walking on liner and poking holes in it, (more so under the water line)
you might try a retraining wall. such as 6"x6" rough cut lumber most hardware stores have this. drop them right into the water, and put a 2 to 3 layers up. and then back fill. behind the retraining wall. (make sure you put in dead men) dead men are posts that stick back into the dirt. to help keep the wall from falling into the pond.
other option "meh" forget keyword. you put extra rock into concrete and then smear it on a 1" to 2" thick if that. and let it cure i want to say 15 minutes to 30 minutes, and before it has a chance to actually really cure hard. take a garden hose and wash away the top layer of concrete, so the rocks show up. and concrete is below holding it all together.
drop a single layer of 6x6s around pond. and cut liner right off at the 6x6's. perhaps making a little trench to drop the 6x6's in. and using the 6x6's to hold some dirt/rock out of pond at same time hold the liner. would strongly advise doing a sandwich approach were ya use say a 2x4 and 6x6, and drive some nails/screws through 2x4 into 6x6 with liner in between. if you roll the liner edge around the 2x4 a couple times before the sandwiching the liner will "hold" better and not slip out / tear from nails being put in.
the liner will be a slip and slid anything under the water once moss and everything else begins to grow on it. and it will grow on it. if you are stocking with fish, you might consider pulling back liner more into the water, and making a "large shallow trench", then put liner back down, and then fill with rock, and bring the rock up above water line some. the rock can help with dogs/animals from puncturing liner as they get into it to drink / swim / cool off in the summer.
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with everything said above.
--being able to hold liner above water line needed
--protection of liner from animals including humans walking on liner and poking holes in it, (more so under the water line)
RNeumann
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Regrade or cover with some type of vine from the dry side and water plants from the pond side. Ultimately you won't be happy until you fix grade though.......
coldsteelva
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Looks like you should dig out that end back towards the fence to lower the pitch and lower the liner (a bit extra water capacity) and then build up with rocks, timbers, clover.
LD1
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Not saying you did a bad job, because that looks nice, but did you not use a transit?
I agree you wont be happy til the grade is fixed. Add dirt to the low side. You are loosing alot of water volume not letting it fill up to the top of the liner on the high side.
Only option I can think is geo-fabric type stuff. But you want a roll wide enough to go from waters edge, all the way up to flat ground, the several feet of the fabric where its flat. A skif of dirt can be put on top where its up on the flat, then sow some seed. Whats up on the flat, with a little dirt and seed rooted in will hold what is on the slop. But dont know how well it will hold if someone or some animal try to walk down to waters edge.
I didnt read all of the pond build thread, but what is the intended use of the pond? Why the decision to use a liner?
I agree you wont be happy til the grade is fixed. Add dirt to the low side. You are loosing alot of water volume not letting it fill up to the top of the liner on the high side.
Only option I can think is geo-fabric type stuff. But you want a roll wide enough to go from waters edge, all the way up to flat ground, the several feet of the fabric where its flat. A skif of dirt can be put on top where its up on the flat, then sow some seed. Whats up on the flat, with a little dirt and seed rooted in will hold what is on the slop. But dont know how well it will hold if someone or some animal try to walk down to waters edge.
I didnt read all of the pond build thread, but what is the intended use of the pond? Why the decision to use a liner?
Zero rain. We had an irrigation type well drilled last year just for the purpose of filling up the pond. I turned it on Friday at 4:30 in the afternoon and the pond was full the following Wednesday night. The pump was running 24 hrs a day.
The liner was about 8k installed. I got two quotes the one I went with for 8k and the other one was 12k for the exact same material (40 mil HPDE) from a different installer. The guys that did it were great. No jokeI called them Wednesday for a price, Thursday morning they showed up and worked till 9PM, and the next day at 4:30 they were done and water was pumping.
It is only about 20' from where the liner stops to the fence and my road goes through there that is the only way to get to back 15 acres. I can't extend anything out.
I surveyed it with GPS and realized it wasn't level the night before the liner people showed up. There wasn't much they could do as the slope was too steep for them to run their trencher on to bury the top of the liner so it had to go up on the flat.
We used a liner because our soil will not hold water. When I was first digging the pond we had a big rain that filled it completely up to where you could not even see where I was a digging and the water was gone in less than a week.
The pond is for fishing and swimming. The kids have been out there every day since it had water and we are stocking it with fish next week.
