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Ellendra Nauriel wrote:What about building something like another chinampa, only taller, with the tallest part pressed against the crack? It might not stop the drainage, but it would slow it way down.
Rob Griffin wrote:Not to sure how permie “flex seal” is but worked. I built a Bill Mollison herb garden (from his permaculture book) for my mom probably 30 years ago with the small pond at the bottom of the spiral but I never could get it to hold water.
Mark Reed wrote:Wow, what a sweet thing to find in your yard. Have you thought about turning it back into a swimming pool? Research "natural swimming pools" to see some ideas, here's a photo of one I just picked at random swimming pool.
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Mathew Trotter wrote:A chinampa is on my list for our pond, but it's a long ways down. Did you do something to reinforce the cinder blocks? . . . I'd be paranoid about part of the wall collapsing and losing all of my soil into the pond.
As far as patching the pond... do you really need to? Especially if you're adding gray water? If the pond is completely impervious, then it won't do much to hydrate the surrounding landscape (without actively removing water with pumps or buckets of whatever.) Personally, I'd want to slow water down, but not stop it completely (unless it were being stored for drinking.)
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Leigh Tate wrote:Mark, it sounds like you have a pretty nice pond ecosystem in place. May I ask how large your pond is? Sounds like it's fairly good size to accommodate all those species so well.
I'd be a bit cautious in your choices or the roots me decide to invade and expand the crack. An Arbutus tree that Mother Nature planted near our pond did that and it was a bad enough crack I had to seal it for the sake of the frogs. A Eucalyptus tree near our septic tank stuck roots between the tank and the lid, but the tank is far enough underground that the slight lift to the lid isn't a problem in that situation. It never fails to amaze me how small a crack certain roots will invade and expand.I've thought the same thing, in fact, I'm pondering planting something behind that crack that would benefit from the moisture.
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Jay Angler wrote:I'd be a bit cautious in your choices or the roots me decide to invade and expand the crack.... It never fails to amaze me how small a crack certain roots will invade and expand.
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Hugo Morvan wrote:What you're proposing now, using the gray water after filtering will still contain a lot of nitrates and phosphates, which in an unbalanced system are going to build up. You can't get rid of them...
Why not . . . collect as many different wild plants as you can from lakes where they are abundant in large quantities.
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Mark Reed wrote:I know recycling and or making use of grey water is sometimes a permie goal but I wouldn't want anything to do with it in a context like that. I might use it to water shade trees or something but nothing else. I haven't studied it either so don't really know what I'm talking about regarding it. It just spooks me a little and lacking knowledge I would just avoid it completely.
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Leigh Tate wrote:
Rob Griffin wrote:Not to sure how permie “flex seal” is but worked. I built a Bill Mollison herb garden (from his permaculture book) for my mom probably 30 years ago with the small pond at the bottom of the spiral but I never could get it to hold water.
Rob, it doesn't sound very permie, does it? I believe there are threads about sealing ponds here in the forums, but I'm guessing it would be for dug, mud bottom ponds. I do know pigs can be used to seal mud, but I don't know exactly how.
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