Hi everybody,
I finally finished the
pond ! 4 years later... it was in standby for a long time. Below is a picture and a short
video of launching day.
It's been doing good so far, first fill was fall 2023, the gutters of the house lead to it so it fills up quick with a few rainfalls.
I let it go naturally, a few species of water bugs colonized very early, water striders and backswimmers in particular. Got a mosquito larvae boom right at the beginning, but then disappeared I guess with the others bugs eating them.
I don't have pictures of the construction except the early ones in the original post, but here is a quick description:
- I kept doing the wall as in previous post, with 4-5 lines of barbed wire on the external side.
- I did a first layer of concrete inside, very rough and thin.
- I layered
chicken mesh in the inside and outside.
- I also reinforced with some barbed wire and other metal rods I had.
- I covered all with about 5 cm of concrete, not much but so far it's doing ok.
- I finished with 2 thin layers of waterproof cement (the actual name: 1-component flexible cement-based waterproofing slurry).
- I piled up dirt around the external wall, for extra support.