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Water Quality Fast Facts for Your Golf Course Water Feature
The recommended steps to protect the water quality of your golf course and its water features include, but are not limited to, these fast facts and industry tips.
How to Protect Your Water Quality with Golf Course Water Features
In recent months, environmental issues including stormwater retention, preservation of wildlife habitats, and wetland preservation and mitigation on golf courses have received increasing attention.
Golf Course Irrigation Ponds and Lakes
Irrigation ponds are typically quite large, and grow even larger as irrigation systems get bigger over time.
Golf Course Water Features: Then and Now
Older courses often found natural features to utilize, like placing greens near narrow streams. However, as development encroaches around a golf course, urban runoff increases substantially.
Water Gardening Animals For Your Fish Pond
In all likelihood, your fish pond will attract much more than just fish. Since you are creating a thriving ecosystem, many other creatures will be curious about your fish pond and may even take up residence.
The Best Species of Fish for Your Pond
Choosing the best species of fish for your pond can be tricky.
Which Fish Should I Choose for my Fish Pond?
There is a multitude of fish species that can thrive in a fish pond. Ranging from goldfish to sturgeon to koi carps, your options are endless.
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Water Quality Issues in Your Farm Pond
If you use your farm pond for anything more than raising koi or handling stormwater, you need to test the water at least once a year.
Farm Pond Nuisance Plants and Animals
Nuisance plants and animals can ruin the water quality, kill off fish and chosen plants, and damage a pond liner with sharp claws.
Farm Pond Security and Liability
Even if your pond is located entirely on private property with no visibility or advertising, you are responsible for any injuries or damage caused by the feature.
Importance of Vegetation Around Your Farm Pond
Not only does a pond with exposed raw soil stand out unpleasantly from the rest of the landscape, but it’s also prone to erosion and leaks without a protective layer of vegetation.
Spreading a Farm Pond Liner
For small landscaping ponds of just a few hundred gallons, spreading pond lining material by hand is a simple process.
Quick Tips on Excavating or Building Your Farm Pond Dam
Using heavy machinery to excavate the pond or shape the embankment dam goes relatively quickly, but it requires plenty of care and attention.
How to Plan for Drainage in Your Farm Pond
Almost all ponds, except for raised excavated designs on flat surfaces with high levees, intake some amount of runoff water.
How to Determine the Size of Your Farm Pond
Before you can set a budget for your pond liner and heavy machinery costs, you’ll need to know the approximate size of the pond.
Embankment vs Excavated Farm Ponds
Once you’re prepared for the permit process and you’ve picked a site for your pond, you can move on to designing its size, shape, layout, and special features.
Choosing the Right Farm Pond Liner
When you can’t rely on the soil itself to hold water, you have three main options for lining your farm pond.
Water Sources for Your Farm Pond
Regardless of the type or size of farm pond you design, you’ll need fresh water flowing into it to replace what’s lost through evaporation and overflow.
How to Choose a Location For Your Farm Pond
There are dozens of different considerations that determine the perfect site for a pond. Many of them are a matter of preference or fixed by circumstances, such as proximity to your home for convenient swimming...
Benefits of a Farm Pond
Ponds are relatively easy and affordable to create, offer multiple benefits to the property owner, and require relatively little maintenance and troubleshooting when built correctly.
Waterfalls 101
Waterfalls create a beautiful, sparkling cascade of water that produces their signature, soothing sound. A water feature with a waterfall is ideal to place near a patio or any outdoor sitting area.
4 Types of Water Garden Plants
If you’ve only grown plants on dry land, you’re in for a treat. Water garden plants are fascinating, fun, and beautiful.
Understanding Water Garden Pumps and Fountains
Pumps are like the heart of the garden. They are the devices that push water through filters, up through fountains, and along streams. They vary widely in size, power, and price.