Larry_Van_Horn
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- Honeoye Falls, NY
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This might seem a bit weird, but after seeing Greg's post on the the streams and ponds I thought I would throw this out.
I posted pictures of my pond construction awhile back. The pond is about 2/3 or an acre, and is now just about full. Around one corner (visible in the picture attached). I built a stone wall. The wall from base to top is about 14' high and is constructed from flat stackable rock from the local quarry. Each stone is between 1 and 4 tons. I brought them in on my truck and then the "pond guy" used his grapple excavator to pick and place them.
He is gone and time has passed. My design for this was to have a waterfall over the rocks. I have an 11,000 GPH pump, but need to create some more rock up top to serve as the outlet, and ideally a flat rock to cantalever out over the wall. I am just wondering if there are alternatives to using the real stuff that are not too expensive. Heck I see it all in amusement parks all the time. It would be costly to have him come back with his excavator just to place more rocks. I am thinking about concrete formed / plastic / styrofoam coated etc. Any thoughts are appreciated.
Thanks,
Larry
I posted pictures of my pond construction awhile back. The pond is about 2/3 or an acre, and is now just about full. Around one corner (visible in the picture attached). I built a stone wall. The wall from base to top is about 14' high and is constructed from flat stackable rock from the local quarry. Each stone is between 1 and 4 tons. I brought them in on my truck and then the "pond guy" used his grapple excavator to pick and place them.
He is gone and time has passed. My design for this was to have a waterfall over the rocks. I have an 11,000 GPH pump, but need to create some more rock up top to serve as the outlet, and ideally a flat rock to cantalever out over the wall. I am just wondering if there are alternatives to using the real stuff that are not too expensive. Heck I see it all in amusement parks all the time. It would be costly to have him come back with his excavator just to place more rocks. I am thinking about concrete formed / plastic / styrofoam coated etc. Any thoughts are appreciated.
Thanks,
Larry