Congratulations on your vortex pond idea! Our pond is not shaped for that
technique (looks like a tooth...two legs). Our 'deep well' (read old septic
tank!) gathers the junk as the koi brush it along and the pump is in the
bottom of the deep well. We did drain the berm veggie filters. Lots of
muck in the first, some inthe second, almost none in the third. Easy with
2" bottom drains.

May your pond stay clear, BV.

Jim

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"BenignVanilla" wrote in message
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Not sure if this is an original idea or not, but I am pretty impressed
with
results, so I thought I would post it. I decided not to net my pond last
fall so I could see how bad it would get, and to see how bad the cleaning
would be. I have TONS of leaves in the pond, as would be expected. The
cleaning as not been too difficult, but it will be some work. I have
gotten
a lot out so far, and the water is just about gin clear already.
Yesterday,
I decided to take a smallish (200 gph or so) pump...I placed it in the
shallows of the pond with the output pointing towards the edge of the
pond.
This very quickly got a small whirlpool going in the pond. The minnows
love
the current, BTW. Anyway, all of the debris, leaves, etc. are all
collecting
behind one of the containers I have plants in, and they are all at the
bottom of the pond! Instead of cleaning Everywhere, I now have a small
area
where the leaves and such are all densely piled. It's making cleaning a
lot
easier.


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