Pond with Tiered Waterfall Enclosed are pictures of our pond. I had been researching pond books & magazines for years trying to decide what I wanted. A couple of years ago while the dozer was leveling our back yard, I asked him to dig me a hole. As you can see by the photos, it was a very large hole. (Boy was my fiancé Joe shocked to come home and find this huge hole in the newly landscaped back yard! He thought I was nuts and that we’d never be able to finish it!) We ordered our materials and equipment. I think it took us about three weeks to put it all together. As you can see though, it came out beautiful. It’s exactly as I wanted. Joe however, said he never pictured it looking so awesome! One day, about a week after finishing, Joe was standing next to the pond looking at the fish I’d just put in that morning when he realized some one was standing behind him. The gentleman introduced himself as the owner of a landscape company. He said he’d been watching the progress of our pond from the street everyday for the past few weeks, and that he has many clients looking for ponds and he was wondering who did ours. He wanted to subcontract some work. Joe just looked at him and said we did it ourselves and that he wasn’t doing any more after all that work! He asked how much we had spent on it and Joe told him about $5,000.00. The landscaper said it probably would have cost us about $12,000.00 to have a contractor do it for us. It’s still a work in progress as we are working on lighting the pond as well as stocking it with plants. We have some lilies that have sprouted and begun to bloom but need more plants. However the 75+/- fish absolutely love it! Now they have 13,000 gallons to play in! All the work was well worth it! Every evening after work we sit in the swing and watch the fish. I have a business at home and find myself drawn outside many times during the day just to look and listen. It’s so relaxing. My daughter’s friends want to pitch tents in the back yard by the pond just to listen to the waterfall all night! Size: 30 feet across @ 18” to 24” deep at the edges & 48” deep at the center Gallons: 13,000 Equipment: large filter falls, large skimmer, 6500 GPH submerged pump, 150 Watt UV sterilizer, 40 foot x 40 foot liner for the pond and a 20 foot a 20 foot liner for the falls as well as underlayment. Also required 50 feet 2” hose and shutoff valves. Rocks: four pallets of large stones plus two different sizes of gravel for the center as well as a load of sand for under the underlayment Cindy Bakios & Joe Vance Derry, New Hampshire   =========================================== Want to see your pond featured here?  Send us one or two of your best pond pictures and we'll add them to the gallery.  pondpics@macarthurwatergardens.com =========================================== Back to Galleria Index - Click Here