Emily's Pond Build Log
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they are read via radio frequency. My mom used to be the supervisor for the water department back in ohio before she retired and i learned way more than i ever wanted to know about the radio reads when they implemented that type of system there.
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not that i am aware of. i called to see if they had a meter or something i could lease but they seemed pretty clueless. the lady i talked to didnt have any ideas on how i might be able to determine how many gallons i put into the pond.
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Well the maintenance guy at work has some ideas, so he's going to come by Sunday if he can to see what we can rig up. He also thinks he might be able to get to the water meter - depends on if it's set up the same as the one at his house. If so, he can get to it. Not easily, but feasible. Hopefully the water dept doesn't get mad about it. LOL. I figure as long as we put everything back the way we found it, it will be OK. But we'll see how that works this weekend.
That's more than I pay for a month's use of water. I'm hoping not to spend that kind of money on determining the water volume. But if it comes down to it I may consider it.
this is a fun mental exercise, it will be a disappointment when you finally fill the pond and measure the true volume 
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I don't know about the calculator you used on that web site; it doesn't work in Firefox, and my aversion to running Explorer is almost religious. But I digress.
Re-estimating given your measurements:
- if the pond were a simple rectangle, it would have an area of 8' x 15' = 120 sg.ft
(a 4' deep, square-sided swimming pool this size would hold 4" x 120 sq.ft x 7.5 gallons/cu.ft = 3,600 gallons. this is a large upper limit on the actual pond volume.)
- if the ends were perfect 8' semi-circles instead of 8' squares, you would lose ~1/4 x 64 sq.ft = 16 sq.ft; however, your design is a little squarer than that, so suppose the curvature costs only ~10 sq.ft., leaving 110 sg.ft of surface
- from your measurements, the inward curve which makes the pond kidney-shaped is less than a 1' reduction in the width, so that also only costs at most say ~10 sq.ft or area, leaving us probably a little over 100 sq.ft
- throwing in ~5 sq.ft for the big first step of the stairs eliminates most of the shallows and leaves 95 sq.ft of "pond."
- 95 sq.ft x 7.5 gallons/cu.ft = 712 gallons/ft of average depth
- If the rest of the pond is 67% @ 4' and 33% @ 2.5', then the average depth is (.67 x 4') + (.33 x 2.5') = 3.5'
- 3.5' x 712 gal/ft = 2490 gallons, plus the (15 sq.ft + 5 sq.ft) x 1' depth of the first step and the plant ledge = 150 gallons gets us back to ~2,550 gallons
which is basically where you started long ago when you first conceived of your design.
. I don't know about the calculator you used on that web site; it doesn't work in Firefox, and my aversion to running Explorer is almost religious. But I digress.
Re-estimating given your measurements:
- if the pond were a simple rectangle, it would have an area of 8' x 15' = 120 sg.ft
(a 4' deep, square-sided swimming pool this size would hold 4" x 120 sq.ft x 7.5 gallons/cu.ft = 3,600 gallons. this is a large upper limit on the actual pond volume.)
- if the ends were perfect 8' semi-circles instead of 8' squares, you would lose ~1/4 x 64 sq.ft = 16 sq.ft; however, your design is a little squarer than that, so suppose the curvature costs only ~10 sq.ft., leaving 110 sg.ft of surface
- from your measurements, the inward curve which makes the pond kidney-shaped is less than a 1' reduction in the width, so that also only costs at most say ~10 sq.ft or area, leaving us probably a little over 100 sq.ft
- throwing in ~5 sq.ft for the big first step of the stairs eliminates most of the shallows and leaves 95 sq.ft of "pond."
- 95 sq.ft x 7.5 gallons/cu.ft = 712 gallons/ft of average depth
- If the rest of the pond is 67% @ 4' and 33% @ 2.5', then the average depth is (.67 x 4') + (.33 x 2.5') = 3.5'
- 3.5' x 712 gal/ft = 2490 gallons, plus the (15 sq.ft + 5 sq.ft) x 1' depth of the first step and the plant ledge = 150 gallons gets us back to ~2,550 gallons
which is basically where you started long ago when you first conceived of your design.
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