You have seen the start and the latest, Here's the twisted path between

From the Weekend After Labor Day to the End of October

Welcome home skippy!

End of the first day and a Boo Beast

Mount Skippy with the denver bronco earth station in the backround

Hand shoveling the bottom with rope for tarping off pond across the pic to my right.

Settling tank hole beyond pond 9x10x6 ft.

Bottom drain trenches from pond to settling tank pit 52" deep

Ken standing in settling tank

Waiting for hurricane Isabel with 3800 lb. of rock on tarp meas. 30'x65'

Horiz. boring with a gas auger for bottom drains

pretty neat eh? 2 -4" lines, 2 -1" lines, and a 2" line. Each bore was just over 5' long to get to trenches

Drains with air diffusers roughed in. 2" line is for a TT

The rest of the drain lines to the tank

Farthest drain from tank was plumbed straight line

The drain nearer the tank has a dogleg to make the head come out even

next is cutting the edge for the concrete. It will support a submerged rock edge

Lazer cut to get edge level and at right hight for planned water level I HOPE!

First stage of concrete forms, flexible plastic landscape edge held with 5" plastic stakes

This shows the 2 strands of rebar w/ grounding per code, 4" high plywood screwed to landscape edgeing and my cross ties of masons twine to stakes on outer edge

A better view of plywood and stakes

This the notch for the savio skimmer, concrete 3" thick here. I feel this will be ok though because of the rebar and I am using fiber reinforced concrete