Should I fill pond with well water?
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Filled my pond with surface water, how can I filter and clean it
Comments (2)Your pond sounds about 1500-2000 gallons. One way to figure out true capacity is measure how long your tap+ hose takes to fill a 3 or 5 gallon bucket and then how long it takes to fill the pond. You should be able to do the math. Best thing to do is pump out this water, clean the remaining silt out, set up a submersible pump in a prefilter going to a skippy or other biofilter that feeds a waterfall. Refill, get filter going, buy some waterlilies and some other plants good for your climate, pot them and place into pond. After about a week, put in some cheap goldfish. If after a year, you have kept them alive and have discovered if local predators (birds, coons, ...) don't snack on them, you can go for more expensive goldfish. Your pond is too small for koi. You can get a submersible pump that also has a fountain attachment or a separate fountain pump. My pond (1500 gallons) is pretty low maintenance and is set up the way I describe above with goldfish and rosy reds, waterlilies, and several types of marginals + parrot's feather....See MorePond....making a well...sucking clean water??
Comments (2)I think the best thing you can do is contact a local well driller for advise. You might not get ground water at 20', the water table might be much deeper than that. And they could advise you about what kind of well screen you'd need to keep the pump flowing all of the time. You also need to come up with a way to protect children and animals from falling down into that 20' deep shaft....See MoreWindow well filling with water
Comments (8)+1 on Worthy's reply. You probably have/had clay drain tiles, and they are sure to be shot by now. And draining to daylight would be best if your property allows. Your well is not highh enough, and wood is not the best at keeping water at bay. If you cannot drain to daylight, I would do the following: Remove that wooden well, and dig the well out at least a couple feet below the bottom of the window. Pickup a deeper plastic or metal well at a box store, and install the new well so the lip is quite a bit higher than this one....high enough so you can bring in additional fill dirt, and get a decent pitch away from the house. Use fill dirt, ideally with some clay in it, not topsoil. the idea is you want the water to run away from your foundation, not soak in. At least get a good pitch for several feet away from the foundation. Then fill the deeper well you dug with small size drainage stone or pea gravel, and put a lid on it for good measure 9premade, or cut from plexiglass or lexan. Water shouldn't get into the well with the lid, and when it runs off, your new positive grading should divert it away from the foundation. If water does happen to get into the well, it will drain into the gravel so that unless you get some kind of record rainfall, it won't pool up deep enough to get up to the bottom of the window. Try to make sure the grading around your entire foundation has a positive pitch away from the house...at least as much as you can. Run drainage pipe to get the gutter water away from the house as well. By the way, what piping does the cleanout in the picture go to?...See MoreFill with well water?
Comments (5)That water needs to run through the water softener/filters but that is going to be a problem since back washes take time and a fill MUST be continuous. The only other proper solution is to truck water in from somewhere that doesn't have the pH and iron issues. With iron in the water, a sequestering agent is needed. I would also add CuLater pouches to the skimmer to remove the metal. The sequesterant will only keep the irom from causing stains but will break down and more needed to be added. AFAIK, CuLater pouches in the skimmer are the only product that will actually remove the iron. The result will be less sequesterant will be needed as your make up water will reintroduce iron. Scott...See Morecatfishhoward
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