Pond -> Pool advice

[Bryan]

The bad news, a very warm Feb led me to raising my plants from their deep
hibernation and place in a shallow temp pond. A week later after 90's for a
week, it dipped into freezing for a few nights in a row. I think all my
lilies died.

So the thoughts turned on turning my pond into a pool for my kids. The water
was always clear, it's huge (20'x8'x4'deep), as big, or bigger, than those
intex above ground pools. Well in theory it's great, but in actuality it's
not working so well.

The plants must have paid a huge role in clarity. Plus this is an extremely
dry and windy year so far. Many days of 20-30mph sustained winds, and I
think they're dumping excess amounts of dirt into my water. All I've ever
used before is an upflow lava rock 55gal drum filter.

Suggestions on how to get the dirt out of the water? All I have is a 2000gph
pump, and my lava filter.

Any other ideas suggestions?

Thanks
Bryan

[~ janj]

>On Sat, 15 Apr 2006 22:26:41 GMT, "Bryan" > wrote:

>The bad news, a very warm Feb led me to raising my plants from their deep
>hibernation and place in a shallow temp pond. A week later after 90's for a
>week, it dipped into freezing for a few nights in a row. I think all my
>lilies died.
>
>So the thoughts turned on turning my pond into a pool for my kids. The water
>was always clear, it's huge (20'x8'x4'deep), as big, or bigger, than those
>intex above ground pools. Well in theory it's great, but in actuality it's
>not working so well.
>
>The plants must have paid a huge role in clarity. Plus this is an extremely
>dry and windy year so far. Many days of 20-30mph sustained winds, and I
>think they're dumping excess amounts of dirt into my water. All I've ever
>used before is an upflow lava rock 55gal drum filter.
>
>Suggestions on how to get the dirt out of the water? All I have is a 2000gph
>pump, and my lava filter.
>
>Any other ideas suggestions?
>Bryan

Go to a pool store and ask them about proper filtration for a swimming
pool. After all, swimming pools, even with proper filtration, require lots
of added chemicals to keep them clean and clear. ~ jan

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(Do you know where your water quality is?)

[netDenizen]

Bryan wrote:

> So the thoughts turned on turning my pond into a pool for my kids.

If it's to be a kiddy pool you'll need to chlorinate - or empty/ fill
daily. There are a variety of swimming pool filters available for
clearing the water if you're really making a pool for children - and not
kidding :) .