2006-09-21 16:08:22 · 8 answers · asked by Anonymous in Home & Garden ➔ Garden & Landscape
If you are trying to save the wildlife in it You may want to let it drain partially and as it drains you put a circle of plastic around the newly exposed shoreline. Take the pond down as low as you can because this will allow you to add more plastic along the sides holding back more water as you refill it. Of course whereever you dont have plastic will allow water to seep through but generally this soil ususally is rocky or clay and it wont matter too much. Be sure to use rocks and other things like brick to hold your plastic down. Eventually you may want to empty the whole thing and line its entirety. You can also use clay as a liner some landscape suppliers may be able to deliver clay for that purpose. Also consider doing a combination of plastic liner and clay.
2006-09-21 21:41:44 · answer #1 · answered by hearts_pool_chess 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Put in a pond liner. It is a thick rubber sheet that must be big enough to come up the edges of the pond above where you want the water surface to be. You cover the top edge with rocks and dirt to hold it in place and the rubber sheet keeps in the water.
2006-09-21 23:14:19 · answer #2 · answered by Rich Z 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
if you dig to the clay bottom you will be fine thru the rainy season (depending where you live of course) I have a pond the same size and I use just a black plastic poly liner ,works just fine for the past 6 years , definetly the cheapest route,
2006-09-21 23:18:57 · answer #3 · answered by rick k 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Put in a pond liner.
Not the hard plastic kind, the vinyl kind, like what they use for pools. Except this is just for ponds.
2006-09-21 23:15:38 · answer #4 · answered by Mintee 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
easiest way would be to go ahead and put a liner in it
they are guaranteed for 20 yrs
my pond was about the size of yours and my liner cost
$300
2006-09-22 04:59:56 · answer #5 · answered by Loollea 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Visquine (plastic) is the "cheapest" way to go, or a bit more cost and "permanent" way would to be to line with a wire mesh, and trowel on a coat of cement, let dry, before filling with water! Any plastic product can become "punctured" and eventually "leak" out into the ground!
2006-09-22 02:37:55 · answer #6 · answered by wildcardvf 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Pond liner, or a lot of clay.
2006-09-21 23:16:07 · answer #7 · answered by Lee J 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yep... Pond liner... I have 2 ponds.
2006-09-21 23:29:37 · answer #8 · answered by Kitty 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋