Pond # 1 Prucnal's

-Water garden of 650 gallons
-Constructed May 2000
-Re-constructed June 2004
-Depth 30"
-Skimmer, 500 GPH Magdrive pump
-Filter 75 gallon biofalls with Bio-Balls
-Calpump Egglites for lighting
-3 American Koi
-2 Leftover Goldfish

Pond # 2 Roberts and Stark's

-6000 Gallons
-Construction Started September 2001
-Liner Installed September 2003 (And still not finished)
-Depth 5' at drains
-Pondsweep Skimmer with Oase Nautilus 30 Pump
(1200 gph @ 3' head)
-Two 4" Sugarloaf Koi Diffuser Bottom Drains
-Nexus 300
-Sequence 750 Series, 4200 Seq12 Pump
(4200 GPH @ 0' head)
-Emperor Aquatics 65 Watt UV
-Return 2 – 1 ½" Jets
-Sweetwater SL-88 Airpump

Pond # 3 Shelp's Pond

We are pleased to have this pond on this year's tour, even though it was on last year's pond tour. You may ask why...well when you see it and compare the difference one year and a lot of work can make. You will answer your own question. This Pond which is actually two ponds connected holds a total of 15,000 gallons of water. The water starts its path at the top water falls which consists of three water falls that drop the water four feet into the first pond which is five and a half feet deep. The 16 or so Japanese Koi that live in this pond are prize winners, with great size and wonderful colors. You can view these Koi from a unique deck that cantilevers 5 feet over the pond, so yes you can watch the fish swim right under your feet. The water continues down a multiple set of streams and waterfalls a total of forty feet and another change in elevation of six total feet. The water then comes to the final lily pond. But don't let the name fool you this one is still large in size. The total system is filtered with a Aquidyne Bead filter / blower, a concrete settling chamber and pump that runs 9600 gallons per hour. If you like good fish, big ponds, and interesting layouts you will love this pond...sorry no goldfish in this pond.

Pond #4 Martin's

Randy Witt of Earthworks installed the pond three years ago. It is a 3800 gallon pond with two waterfalls, and a small connecting pond with a stream running into the big pond. The two waterfalls have 2 3,000 gallon per hr. pumps. The small pond has a 2,400 gallon pump. There are numerous waterlilies, bog plants and 13 koi fish. There are underwater lights as well as above lights and lights underneath each of the waterfalls. We also have a 4,000 gallon per hr. waterfalls in the adjoining backyard with 8 color fiber optic lights.

Photo By Loren Prucnal

Photo By Loren Prucnal

Photo By Loren Prucnal

Photo By Loren Prucnal

Pond #7 Gordon and Everts

Jan and Greg have a small pond that they built themselves 3 years ago. It is about 1200 gallons with a 2 foot bottom fed falls that is fed by a skimmer box at the opposite end. The pond is built in three tiers to accommodate a variety of plants and to allow the ever changing goldfish population to winter over.
The pond has many plants and is surrounded with a wide variety of perennials and annuals with an assortment of grasses planted in front. Some of their favorites are the annual purple fountain grass, the ice plants, the red crocosmia, Lucifer, and the cannas with which they have had good luck growing in the pond. This year they have added a lotus.
Jan especially enjoys working with annuals in patio pots and window boxes. She is the chief gardener and the chief caretaker is Greg! The newest addition to the patio is a gargoyle with a flower pot on its head that was made by Jan's daughter.

Photo By Loren Prucnal

Pond #10 Young's

We have 3 bodies of water on our 13-acre parcel of land.
Pond #1 is a ½ acre natural earth pond, installed in 1984. Maximum depth is 12 feet, with a volume of over 1 million gallons of water! It was designed with a beach area that does not exceed 3 feet in depth, and features a water slide mounted to a scratch built dock. There is a floating dock in the center of the pond, to serve as an "island" of rest.
The pond has twin aerators, and a floating scratch built fountain. The fountain uses a 1 hp Tsurumi submersible pump, a wooden frame (for buoyancy), a pvc nozzle, and 3 - 120 volt underwater lights for night viewing.
The pond is home to loads of lilies, irises (including Louisiana), minnows, Perch, large mouth Bass, crawfish, frogs (that escape the Bass) and pond snails.
This pond has no springs feeding it, relying instead on ground water runoff. To prevent the water level from dropping in the hot dry months, it is fed by a gravity flow system that uses about 400 feet of 1.25 inch diameter pvc, which has its origins in Pond #2, a 1/3 acre natural earth reservoir pond located in back of our woods, which is not stocked.
Pond #3 is our 7,800 gallon water Koi pond/water garden. It is made from gunnite, commercially installed by Leisure Craft pools, and incorporates a single bottom drain, along with a skimmer. It is approximately 19 by 18 feet, and is 4 feet in depth, with a 1 foot deep plant shelf. The falls with its stream, along with the bog garden with its stream; are all liner based. This pond is home to 8 Japanese Koi, 5 lilies, and a number of marginal plants, located on shelves in the pond, as well as in the bog garden itself.
We have 2 separate circulation systems. One uses a skimmer housed ½ hp Tsurumi pump which feeds an Aquadyne 4.4 bead filter, which in turn feeds the "biofalls". The bottom drain feeds a 1/3 hp Dragon pump, which feeds a long stream, which was designed to function as a trickle filter system. The stream drains into an adjacent 8 x 11 foot bog garden, which then flows back into the pond.
A small electric fence surrounds the pond, to protect the Koi from the return of a mink that previously cleaned the pond of all its inhabitants in October 2002.
All the landscaping around the pond was done by Diane and Greg Young.

Photo By Loren Prucnal