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Deer Pond Cleaning and Maintenance

If you want to keep wildlife coming back to your pond, it’s important to ensure it’s clean all year round

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Materials Needed to Create Your Deer Pond

The materials you use to create your deer hunting pond (or any other kind) will dictate how long it lasts and how high-quality it is

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Types of Deer Ponds

There are only a few main types of ponds: excavated, embankment, and combo. Let’s take a look.

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Where to Place a Deer Pond

If you want to keep your pond long-term and get the most out of it, you can’t just place it any-old-where

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Pros and Cons of a Deer Hunting Ponds

Putting in a pond can cost anywhere from hundreds to thousands of dollars, so you want to make sure it’s worth it

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Why a Deer Hunting Pond?

Ponds are, in a word, rad.

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Why Build a Deer Hunting Pond?

Hunting is more than a sport or a pastime. For many, it’s a way of life.

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Maintenance for Decorative Retention Ponds

Building the world’s best retention pond may result in awards and accolades from the community.

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Permanently Filled vs Temporary Drainage Basin

Retention and detention ponds are commonly confused, and the similarities in their names don’t help. 

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Attracting Wildlife Without Damage to the Retention Pond

There are quite a few reasons to target certain wildlife when designing a retention pond. 

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Planting Retention Ponds for a Natural Look

Retention ponds thrive when planted and tend to experience issues when kept bare

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Lining Retention Ponds: Why and How

The earliest retention ponds were all unlined because there was little understanding of why these ponds need lining so much

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Options for Making Retention Ponds More Decorative

With many states requiring little to no features that would be purely decorative for retention ponds

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Why are Most Retention Ponds Often So Unpopular?

Retention ponds are actually a positive feature of any neighborhood or urban area

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The Importance of Water Retention Ponds

Retention ponds were once only used in agriculture and industrial site development

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What Makes a Great Baffle?

It’s important to evaluate not only the material used for your baffle system

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Designing an Efficient Clearwell Tank

It’s clear that strategic use of baffles in a clearwell tank enhances efficiency and effectiveness 

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The Benefits of Baffles

In general terms, a baffle is a barrier that slows and directs the flow of a liquid through a space

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Disinfecting Potable Water with Chlorines

A clearwell, also called a contact or disinfectant tank, is where the disinfection step takes place. 

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Water Treatment Stages II: Disinfection and Storage

Once water has gone through the major steps of coagulation, flocculation, sedimentation, and filtration

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Water Treatment Stages I: Removing Solids

Whatever the source, be it surface water or municipal wastewater, whenever water might be used for drinking, it must meet high standards for quality

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What Exactly is a Clear Well?

A clear well (clearwell) is an enclosed tank that comprises the final storage tank in a municipal drinking water treatment system

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Secondary Containment and Leak Detection for Landfill Cells

Secondary containment is a major challenge for every outdoor waste storage project

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Soil Caps vs Geomembrane Caps for Landfill Cells

It’s often a misconception that landfill cell designers choose between soil or impermeable covers when creating a cap for a closed unit

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Designing Multi-Layered Liner Systems for Landfills

Lining a landfill is quite possible, but it is a bigger challenge than some operators first assume

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