Half a dozen Certified Aquascape Contractors met up in Irvine on Saturday morning. They were helping the Irvine Valley College, by building a pond . The location on the campus is known as the BEES pond habitat. The outdoor nature area is a great place to see and learn how nature interacts.
David Misterly of Aqualife Ponds, contacted some of his fellow pond builders from the Southern California area, who were more than happy to assist him in the voluntary pond build. These Pond builders included Bernie Kerkvliet, of Skyline Ponds, Carl, Ian and John Petite, from Columbia Water Gardens, Cliff Raitz, from Terrascapes, and Myself with my Pondman truck and tools.
This pond has two skimmers with several hundred gallons of water per hour being sucked in to them, along with the water, any floating debris will be sucked in. There, the debris will easily be removed, not giving it the chance to float or sink to the bottom and decompose. From the skimmers, the water is pumped up to the top of the waterfall, where an Aquascape Bio falls filter, with a beneficial bacteria growth, will help to break down any remaining waste in the water. In addition water will be pumped into a wet land bog filter bed. Plants will be planted in this filter bed. These plants will remove even more nutrients and debris. The result will be a crystal clear pond.
Soon Fish like these will call the BEES pond home.