Garden Pond | Eco-safe Ponds Could Help Save Water, Ease Dangers Of Flooding
How hard is it to make a backyard pond?
Everyone knows the basic steps from Pond Making 101: Dig hole, add water.
Turns out there’s more to it than that.
Landscaping firm South County Landscaping of Crown Point will demonstrate how to create an eco-friendly backyard pond and water system that will conserve rainwater, filter out pollutants and reduce the flow of downstream water during flood surge events.
The Schererville Department of Public Works will show homeowners ways they can prevent pollutant runoff from their homes and gardens into lakes and streams and conserve water.
Scott Molchan, vice president of South County Landscaping, said the pond will be 16 feet by 21 feet.
“It’s a backyard decorative water garden pond that has a rubber liner and mossy rocks,” Molchan said. “It creates a whole ecosystem, including plants, fish and beneficial live bacteria. Everything feeds off each other. It’s a great system that works very well.”
Molchan said the system collects and stores 500 gallons of water from the roof and gutters in an underground storage tank that can be later reused to water plants, and in the back yard the pond system collects another 1,500 gallons of water. The rainwater harvesting and pond are tied together through a separate holding tank off the pond that empties into a basin area.
“There is a waterfall, stream and wetland filtration,” he
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