Man-summer resident-quite mysterious creature: when he owns a flat and flat area, it tends to make the Alpine hills. And the present relief, on the contrary, tries to level with a bulldozer. If there is no pond on the territory of the dacha, the person-summer resident will make an artificial pond.
And, of course, if there is a pond, the summer resident is likely to cherish the dream and look for ways to fall asleep. Well, or at least move to another place.
The reasons to change the configuration, size, location of the country pond or completely get rid of it the owner can be a lot. This article is about what to do if you are tired of the pond.
That we should put the pond to sleep
Suppose you decide that the available pond on the suburban area you no longer need or stopped to arrange their size, shape or location. Before we start work, we will decide what to do.
Garden ponds are divided into two groups: artificial and natural. This division occurs according to the type of water supply: if you pour water into the pond from the water supply, then the reservoir is artificial. And if the source of water is natural (precipitation, surface and ground water), then the pond you have a natural, even if at the time and was excavated.
Artificial pond
Destroy, transfer, change the shape and size of such facilities is easy.
It is necessary to drain the water, disconnect and dismantle the pumping equipment and filters, remove the plastic bowl or remove the waterproofing film. After that, calculate, if you do not know the volume of the resulting pit to order the required amount of soil.
To fill the pond, you can also use construction waste — the battle of bricks, fragments of concrete structures.
If the pond is large, try to fill it to observe some semblance of soil layers, typical for your site. For example, the lower layer of rubble and clay, above — sand, and at the top lay the fertile layer. When filling well Ramm layers. These measures will allow the covered pit to better ” fit ” into your site.
But even with such precautions do not expect immediately after falling asleep bed of the former reservoir to place something on this place. The soil will settle, so be prepared to pour a few more times this place.
Natural reservoir
Much more difficult question is the elimination of the natural reservoir. Just fall asleep it will not work-before you plan this business, it is necessary to decide where the water that feeds the pond will go.
Lightly filled natural pond may result in raising the groundwater level in all areas of your site. And neighbor villas, is also likely to be affected by this problem. Another trouble — on the site of the former pond can form a local area with high groundwater (swamp).
Get rid of the pond: mission impossible?
Doable of course! A person can turn mountains and turn back the flow of rivers, what can we say about some country pond. However, before starting activities to get rid of the pond, sit on a bench and weigh everything carefully: is it worth it?
The main issue, which, as always, is able to negate all the great ideas-financial. The cost of destroying or remaking the pond is comparable to the new device, and may be more.
What can be “pitfalls” in a covered pond
What are the costs you expect? Let’s do the math. The pond in the photo above has a size of about 6 by 3 meters. Assume that its depth is 1.5-2 meters. So, the volume of this reservoir will be about 32 cubic meters of soil and 32,000 liters of water.
- Pumping water and silt
Before you fall asleep pond, you will need to pump out the water. You can, of course, and do, but be prepared for the fact that the water from the pond will flood the entire site. In addition, to the issue with the reservoir does not develop into a new problem, after pumping the water will need to remove the silt from the bottom.
And water, and silt can be to remove on their own, and can be order work specialists.
- Backfilling with soil
One of the most money — intensive aspects in the destruction of the pond-earthworks. In order to fall asleep even a small pit, you will need a lot of soil. We continue to consider the cost of the liquidation of the above pond.
- Drainage works
The cost of drainage work can be estimated, only knowing the real situation on the site. So figure out for yourself what it will cost you to remove water from the former pond.
In addition to the financial issue, do not forget that the work to eliminate the reservoir will entail the defeat on the site: tons of soil, heavy machinery and so on.
For any construction we pay either money or time
There is a more sparing from the point of view of Finance method of reconstruction of the reservoir on the site. If you are not in a hurry, the pond really fall asleep and without equipment with sand, gravel and soil.
You can get rid of a small pond gradually, putting in it broken bricks, stones, branches after cutting trees on the site, hay and so on. In a few years, the pit will be filled in a natural way-this is how the holes in nature are filled.
Perhaps, after weighing all the pros and cons, you decide that the pond on the site — not so bad.
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