The filters are the long tubes and near them are bags of gravel which will be laid to form the retaining wall for the filter system.
Here the construction of the filter system has begun, with the first of the bag layers holding a gravel bed. All 6 units of the filter are laid on top in sequence and then further gravel is added.
This shot shows the landscaping of the step area where we will have lots of plants, and in the deep end you can see the filter system, with its bag wall and stone edging. The pool has also been painted.
Tomorrow is filling day hopefully, but first we have to complete the placement of soil and rocks and install some large pots over the filter area for our lotus and bull rushes, and other deep water plants. We are also awaiting the lab test results for our water tanks. We do want to use tank water to fill the pool if possible! It goes with our green ethos. Hopefully we'll have those results in the morning or the fill will be delayed!
Good one, I like the system of building an inner wall as a biofilter and planting area. I would be interested to understand how the water is pumped through the gravel. I wonder if it would work in an above ground pool?
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Matt :)
The water is pulled down through the gravel into the filters and then out through the plumbing and recirculated back to the other end of the pool. I understand you can have the filter in the pool or outside the pool. An above ground pool might have less room than an in ground pool for an in-pool filter, but otherwise there is no reason why ithe system should not work just as well.
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ReplyDeletethank you for the link to your blog. I love the spirit of it and its presentation. You have a great, friendly sense of nature and a pioneering scientific curiosity; it is my joy and privilege to work with you.
Your blog will help to raise a sense of natural pools as integrated ecological systems with their own characteristics and potential.
And most important it can help to shift our focus from the sterilization-paradigm to an awareness that nature is actually a complex self balancing phenomenon, just like our bodies and it will be at it's best and healthiest, when we observe and further balance.
Thank you for sharing your spirit and attitude
Best
Ralf
P.S.: ... I look very much forward to seeing Charles returning to his home.
Ralf, you wil be amazed to hear that within 2 hours of starting the filling of the pool a baby water dragon no more than 10 cm long ( including tail) has perched himself on one of the filter bed rocks and is watching the rising water! So he is the first fauna returning to the pool. Probably Charles's offspring.
ReplyDeleteBeautiful, Beryl; it is always incredible and very joyful to watch how fast life moves in when we offer a place for it. That is also how nature repairs damaged environments often surprisingly fast. I have witnessed a dramatic change on a large scale; as the river in my home town (behind our garden) changed from a heavily, black and stinking chemical channel (East German Industry) in to a crystal clear oasis with a great fish population and lush green banks in a matter of only 2 years after stopping a 30 Year old pollution. Your little dragon fly is a messenger from heaven! Ralf
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