well, here we are 9 hours later... and still filling. I always thought I had good water pressure here. I can't believe how long it's taking to fill the pond up!! (kinda excited too, the longer it takes, the more water I managed to find a home for
)
Unfortunately, didn't end up 9' deep. I almost had it beat and I found the biggest rock in the universe
. I managed to expose all of it, but there was absolutely no way that sucker was coming out without a machine... which I can't get into my backyard without a crane. (not an option) The thing is 39" across, and about 30" tall. I toyed with leaving it in there, and fitting the liner around it, but decided against it as it would mess up my bottom drains ability to pull the junk out so I was lucky enough to move about 35 wheelbarrows of dirt, not once, but TWICE! Lucky me. So we ended up 6'6" deep at the drain, and the sides are at 5'10" and it's 13 X 8'6" plus a feeding shelf that's about 2' wide, 2' deep and 7'6" (the wife keeps calling it a plant ledge, when will she figure out it's a feeding shelf??). All in all, still deep enough for me to grow some monster pond mutts!
(I hope)
Are the online calculators accurate for determining volume? My cheap little water meter gave up the ghost about 3 hours ago so I'll have to go the math route.
Main pond - 13 X 8.5 X 6 - 4972.5 gals
Settlement - 300 gals
Bio Filters - 200 gals
FEEDING SHELF - 225 gals (had to yell that in case she reads this)
Total - 5697.5 plus plumbing and such so around 5700 gals??
- the skimmer isn't in yet, but will be added next spring. Going to go with a savio unit. Kind of pricey, but I like how contained it is and with the water from the skimmer I'm going to fire it through two tetra pond pressurized filters (was thinking about a b.s. but that may have to wait for more money) then back to pond via a few jets placed to eliminate any dead water I may end up with.
Just want to get it close for measuring dechlor and such.
thanks again for all the good advice and such! I'm going to go check to see if we're almost filled up!
Grant