We have recently bought a property with a disused mill pond, its currently completly hiden by self seeded trees and bushs. yesterday was a bit of a shock when i forced my way through to find boardering what id class as a small lake
if we were to use the whole area i think it would easily cover 40m x 6-8m
but its more likely to be 20m-25m long
as a mill there is a local stream but the feed to our pond is now redundent and not on our land. so are looking to ignore the origianl feed and use the local stream water to fill and top up where necessary
the area is deep with soft debris, went with a spade in hand yesterday and gave up at 1m depth of debris.becasue its so soft im thinking we dont clear the site, but landscape the area for shelving areas. ill have to blank of the outlet end substantially to prevent it giving way and flooding our new neighbours.
im not sure if there should be any form of filtration(uv-phosphate remover....)
never had a pond, but so far ive found many many native plants, im going to have to be so careful of using native as the stream is very close to the pond.
will be totaly fish free
going to be a long slow project but welcome any advice or ideas.
andy
