Looks like this year was a light winter same as last year. Also seems that we had more warm ups and warmer temperatures to go along with the snow melts. It does seem we had some flow through in the ponds, pond dye is washed out for sure but did we get a good flushing? […]
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Earthen dam potential hazards. In case you missed it or haven’t seen the news about Oroville’s California tallest dam in the US of 770’ tall, has had some trying times this past weekend and continues with the threat of more rain. Oroville Dam history, quick video. If you have been following along in our articles
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Having a pond is great for relaxation, visual pleasure, watching wildlife, fishing swimming and more. But what happens when a plants, wanted or not become more of a nuisance than what it was intended for? Where do they come from? Sometime we may plant something with the intent of helping the pond ecosystem, which they
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Bottom aeration is the best tool for pond management. The bottom of the pond is where most of our problems come from so why not start there to help bring the pond back to life or at least keep out newer pond from the eventual problems. Yes there are ponds that don’t have a problem
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I just wanted to add to the other post Spring Pond 2016. The main reason was a thunderstorm that happened the day after the post went live. When I got up for work the thunderstorms were moving in and raining fairly hard. At least it slowed down so I could get to the van and
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Spring has arrived at the ponds and seems like an early spring with the ice coming off around the second week of March. Good in some ways and bad in others. Good because we can now see our ponds, the water and what we need to get done before the ponds come to life again.
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I know we’ve been seeing the latest floods in the news and we may have been through a flood ourselves. Another part of the water power is geared more towards water flow or should I say how much water can run through an 8” pipe. Coming out of winter and the spring rain we install
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Strange title? I sort of thought so as well but hope to make sense of it in a little bit. We already know what ponds are, a pool of water contained in one area where water is supplied to it and released as needed when the water supply become too great. Some parts of the
With this past weekend here in northwest PA. the blanket of snow Sunday morning is a reminder to get things taken care of before winter really sets in and we can’t finish our projects until next spring. I wanted to bring up a few different items to do around the pond to get it and
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Cattails are good for the pond but can become unruly and want to take up more area than we want them to have. Once they get started they will continue to grow along the shore and out into the water to a point of 4’ deep. Hand removal is one tough method, meaning it is
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