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Community => Coffee Lounge => Topic started by: martel on February 16, 2012, 02:44:21 pm

Title: making a pond
Post by: martel on February 16, 2012, 02:44:21 pm

Hello I am planning on creating a pond to store water for irrigation of vegtables and intend to pump water  from a recent dug well can any one advise on how best to create this with pond liner and what size of area and depth to store around 50.0000 gal of water I am also planning on throwing in a few fishes the keep down the mozzies in sunny Jamaica
I also have the use of an  excavator to or better would any one be happy to come and help with this project free board
Martel from Jamaica contact martelbryan@yahoo.com

Title: Re: making a pond
Post by: doganjo on February 16, 2012, 03:00:30 pm

Welcome to the forum and good luck with the project.  I'm hoping to start a similar one here in sunny Clackmannan shortly, not sure about fish although it would be nice to have some carp, but my dogs might try to retrieve them!   ;D