How did you get power for your water pumps??

We hired an electrician to do it.
We dug the trench for him, with the help of large football playing neighbor
teenager for the rocks from heck, to the specifications the electrician gave
us. Had the city inspect it.
Since I was doing before and after school care and always had tons of kids in
the backyard anyway it was a wise choice for us.


kathy :-)
A HREF="http://www.onceuponapond.com/"Once upon a pond/A

I ran ext cord last year, never had a good oppurnity to trench. Hopefully
there will be a nice day this spring, that I'm off work I can go to Home
Depot and rent a trencher ($20-$40/24hrs) well worth it for me. Being in OKC
you shouldn't have rocky soil, at least I have ony found 1 "rock" so far in
my diging of my pond, and it's a white gravel type rock from a
driveway/landscape stone, so not a natural rock for OK :-)

Bryan
http://www.safetybaby.com/yard/yard.htm

"cowboy" wrote in message
om...
The location that I want to put my koi pond is at the other end of my
yard, away from any power outlets from my house. How did you
guys/gals get power to your pumps?

I am also in Oklahoma City, so if anyone here has any good ideas such
as plant life that grows good here it would be appreciated.

Thanks in advance!!

You need to run a GFI outlet from your house to the pond. I ran my line
thur pvc pipe out to a post. On my site I think theres a pic of it
somewhere. Make sure you use a gfi it might save your life some day.



http://community.webtv.net/rebeljoe/POND

That's what I did in San Diego too. The only thing about the conduit that is
important is that you must run individual wires, not cable because it will
overheat in the conduit.

Joe

On 2/23/04 7:03 AM, " wrote:

in our area of wisconsin I can attach pvc pipe to the fence and run the wire
thru
that. it is "code". Ingrid



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On Sun, 22 Feb 2004 22:30:45 -0500, Mike Patterson
wrote:

On 22 Feb 2004 16:31:47 -0800, (cowboy) wrote:

The location that I want to put my koi pond is at the other end of my
yard, away from any power outlets from my house. How did you
guys/gals get power to your pumps?

I am also in Oklahoma City, so if anyone here has any good ideas such
as plant life that grows good here it would be appreciated.

Thanks in advance!!

I ran the power through plastic conduit buried 20 inches down.

Tip:
Run extra wires, and run it in oversized conduit so you can run other
stuff through it later if you want.

I ran 1/2 inch conduit, then realized I wanted more wire runs and
would like to also run a flexible water line, so added a 1.5 inch
flexible plastic pipe to the trench. Plenty of space to run more
wiring and a water tube as well.




Mike Patterson
Please remove the spamtrap to email me.
Not to mention a gas line for the flame G.

PlainBill

The ponds are at the edge of our patio, and about 20' from the breaker
box. Conduit runs along a patio beam to a series of outlets with
individual GFCI protection (so when one pump went bad, the other kept
running).

It was installed by the previous owner, but I still feel smug I didn't
have to dig a 200' trench like some of you guys. G

PlainBill

On 22 Feb 2004 16:31:47 -0800, (cowboy) wrote:

The location that I want to put my koi pond is at the other end of my
yard, away from any power outlets from my house. How did you
guys/gals get power to your pumps?

I am also in Oklahoma City, so if anyone here has any good ideas such
as plant life that grows good here it would be appreciated.

Thanks in advance!!

"Bryan" wrote in message
...
I ran ext cord last year, never had a good oppurnity to trench. Hopefully
there will be a nice day this spring, that I'm off work I can go to Home
Depot and rent a trencher ($20-$40/24hrs) well worth it for me. Being in
OKC
you shouldn't have rocky soil, at least I have ony found 1 "rock" so far
in
my diging of my pond, and it's a white gravel type rock from a
driveway/landscape stone, so not a natural rock for OK :-)

Bryan
http://www.safetybaby.com/yard/yard.htm


One rock? I hate you. I have one rock that is the entire size of my pond -
18'x30', about 20" below ground level, plus thousands of 'smaller' rocks -
10 to 400 lbs.

"grubber" wrote in message
...

"Bryan" wrote in message
...
I ran ext cord last year, never had a good oppurnity to trench.
Hopefully
there will be a nice day this spring, that I'm off work I can go to Home
Depot and rent a trencher ($20-$40/24hrs) well worth it for me. Being in
OKC
you shouldn't have rocky soil, at least I have ony found 1 "rock" so far
in
my diging of my pond, and it's a white gravel type rock from a
driveway/landscape stone, so not a natural rock for OK :-)

Bryan
http://www.safetybaby.com/yard/yard.htm


One rock? I hate you. I have one rock that is the entire size of my
pond -
18'x30', about 20" below ground level, plus thousands of 'smaller' rocks -
10 to 400 lbs.