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Addressing Site Challenges & Dual Pump System

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Pond Day1 Breaking ground

What happens here

The property has a natural slope, which requires careful planning for the pond's construction. The goal is to 'site balance' the excavation, meaning soil removed from one area will be used to build up another part, minimizing the need to haul dirt off-site. A dual pump system will be installed, with pumps located in a back corner near a barn for convenient power access. This redundancy ensures continuous water circulation even if one pump fails. Additionally, some pumps will include underwater jets to help push sediment towards the pre-filter area.

Goal: Overcome site challenges and ensure continuous water circulation

Tools and materials

  • Mini Excavator — Excavation and shaping the landscape for site balancing
  • Underwater Jets — To help push sediment towards the pre-filter area

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get better water quality shallow water on the one side deep water on the other now the challenge that we have here is um your property slopes yep which is very typical um so what we want to do is we want to we want to try to sight balance everything we're going to start digging we start building up over on the other side you have access for power over here on the barn so we'll have our pump located on that back corner so that way when everything's operational we have water being discharged here it's going to flow through under your Bridge cut across and make its way back into the uh customized skimmer system then it's going to repeat the cycle mhm wash rinse and repeat that's it we've got a dual system one that never shuts off correct and then another one that just allows us to feel the you know a little bit of a kick exactly so we will have a dual pump system I like doing that especially when we start getting into pounds of this scale because if if it's mechanical something's going to happen it's just inevitable you're going to have a pump go down so that way if we have two of the pumps are exactly the same so if one of them goes down the other one could take the place of it so we can kind of play back and forth with that that same secondary pump is also going to have some um underwater Jets so that'll help to push sediment over to our uh pre-filter area what's the next thing

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