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Thanks everyone! Hope you enjoy the pics.
The pond took about 6 months to build, and it is our 2nd pond.
The hydraulic deck sits on 4 - 8' upright steel sleeves, and is remotely controlled from under the deck and rises 3 feet.
After building our first pond and basically doing everything you are not supposed to do, I drove all the Koi Gurus nuts picking their brains, and wanting to know everything they learned in 20 years in 1 month.
What I did learn was that for every action there is a reaction. (duh) The pond and deck pretty much takes up the entire back yard that measures
35' wide and 90' long.
The permit guy from the city thought I had too much water in my brain......he thought I was building my own water treatment plant. Then I asked him about getting plans to put a viewing glass in the filtration room. I think he lost it then, because he said he had to go. He signed my permit and took off have'nt seen him since.
In building this pond, I took into consideration any and all advice I could get, and reading articles from JR, Tom Lansing, Peter Waddington, Grant Fujita, Bert Ballou, Ken Grey etc.....I incorporated old school and new technology with a little Dunkel twist.
I am going to try to get some more technical info posted soon, and some more pics of the build.
I have to bribe my wife because she is the one who types in the family. They really need to make these things voice activated...but then we would be here all day, and all night, going koi-kichi.
Jeff & Joelan Dunkel
Hydroman & Geishakoi
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