What pond liner, underlayment, and pump would be suitable for a pond 20 X 20 feet that is 3 feet deep?
Sand is an excellent underlayment as it can be sculpted to your preference, and the sand becomes hard as a rock after water has filled in the pond. sand will also cover hard dirt and rocks so they won't puncture your liner. The liner should be a thick plastic such as bisqueen, because plastic takes approximately 120 years to dissolve in our enviroment this would withstand the life of the pond. Your looking at 600 gallons of water to circulate so you would need a pump to handle that capacity, which you need to circulate or the pond becomes stagnant and oxygen will not flow through the water to support underwater growth such as plants or fish. xxx
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liner to liner --
bought my liner at Home Depot. they also sell what they call adhearing edging tape This will basically "adhear" one liner to the other.
I will tell you however, when you put the two together, be sure to over lap the two by about a foot - two feet! and tape on both sides. They also have what smells like a PVC glue. You have to scuff up the rubber bottom side and top side smear this God awful smelly glue and let it dry. Put the two pieces together and tape the edges (I did both sides it isn't required.
The pond is still holding water!
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