NEGLECTED WETLAND FILTER - MUDDY REBUILD: Carl Petite, Columbia Water Gardens
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- Опубліковано 9 вер 2018
- Gross!!!! This filter hasn't been cleaned in over 13 years, we had to use an excavator to clean it!!!
In this video we clean a wetland filter by removing the old gravel with an excavator and replacing it with washed roadbase. This liner pond has an intake bay and a wetland filter built with Aquascape Aquablocks, Centipede and Snorkel units.
This was so severely impacted that the only answer was to remove all the top gravel with an excavator and replace it with clean gravel.
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Thanks!
Carl Petite
Columbia Water Gardens
www.ColumbiaWaterGardens.com
888-713-7771 - Навчання та стиль
Great information, Carl. This is not a project for just anyone. You obviously know the forensics of this wetland filter and know what you are doing as a certified Aquascape contractor. Bravo!
Thanks for the kind words, Lauri :)
We were both excited and sad when we found that it was an Aquascape Wetland Filter buried under years of neglect. Excited because we knew what to do and who to ask for help (Thanks Kathy Smith and the other CAC’s that were on the live facebook feed in the CAC forum concurring and disputing how we should approach this job). Sad because they are so simple to maintain and it was neglected because of a transfer of home ownership without a proper handoff.
We could not have made the proper repairs on this if we weren’t trained by Aquascape.
Thanks, I am installing a Wetland filter in the future to my 3,000 gal pond. So cool to have the best water quality for my fish using the best method to purify my water.
That is such a great video...informative and shows exactly what is needed for the pond and wetland filter. Also, knowing that the trees will be nourished by this water/pond is (I believe) what a lot of property owners are looking for, especially in Southern CA. Thank you so much
Great lesson learned! Thank you very much! You saved me from a disastrous mistake. 👍👍👍
My pleasure. It never hurts to check with an expert. 😀
Great video your not snooty like aquascapes.
Thank you, but they are also friends of mine. Greg has been to my home several times.
DANG! That had to be a hella spendy bill! But, not going forward at least, and I guess, if you’re the new homeowner, still less money than installing that whole project.🤷🏼♂️
I think we charged like 2500.00 for that job. I can't remember.
Very informative, thanks alot
Im so glad you liked it!
Wow that was packed! Super important to do yearly maintenance
Or sooner if necessary
Great video so show folks that they need to do maintenance on their filters. Wetlands filters will never, never keep the water crystal clear all the time reason maintenance is important. Traditional filtration is water enters filter from the top and pumped out the bottom allowing Autotrophic bacteria to work on the Ammonia and CO2 additionally the Heterotrophic bacteria on the top of the filter to work on large organic matter like fish poop and human skin cells. Traditionally finer material will be at the bottom of the filter like finer sand, filter matts and activated charcoal and larger gravel on top and about 1 or 2 inches of 1 inch rocks. If filtration starts from the bottom up then the entire set up of the fine sand should be at the top followed by filter matts, activated charcoal and the 1 inch rocks on the bottom, some type of screen mesh or additional filter matts need to be used to hold the activated charcoal. This type of filter will contain the larger matter at the bottom and if not maintain properly a huge accumulation of heavy material will just settle at the bottom and the Ammonia and CO2 will not filter out properly on the top by Autotrophic bacteria.
Learned a lot! Thank you
Thanks for saying thanks! 😀
GREAT video!!
Thanks for the kind words!
All of us are really working hard here to deliver better videos and better product. Kind words like yours put wind in our sails. :)
Great video Carl!
Good job guys
Nice Video Carl!!
Great video, thank you! But wouldn't the intake bay require a similar drastic cleanup as well?
Good question. In the case of this customer, their intake was fine.
Hello Carl , congrats on your wonderful videos. I have a question that never gets discussed. How do we calculate the correct amount of water that should travel through a bog filter per hour? I am planning to build my pond with a surface area of about 600 sqft and depth of around 6 feet. I want to have a very large bog of about the same size of the pond approx 500sqft. I will have about 5-10 koi fish. Also the bottom of the pond will have gravel and water will pumped through the gravel up flow. I would like to know how how much water per hour I should pump through the pond and how much through the up flow system on bottom of the pond. I never found anybody that discussed this topic....glad to hear your input.
Im going to make my next video just for you. excellent question!!!
I'm headed off to church for now, will produce my answer tomorrow and make it public at 8 am Tuesday.
@@ColumbiaWaterGardens sweet cant wait!
So with the snorkel and centipede unit all you do is pump the sludge out the bottom and thats it? No other maintenance to the bog?(other then plant maintenance)
It's as simple as that
Nice
Thanks
Awesome video
Thanks
What was the road base material you reference that was a cheaper option? Was it crushed concrete?
It was class 3
Hey Carl,
When are you going to upload the video regarding the water flow gph through a bog filter..?
i keep forgetting....
Ill try to produce one asap
Awesome video. Where do you get the re usable aggregate bags?
U line. They are 20 to 25 bucks each.
Please place a link of the diagram of the wetland filter that was on the vlog.
I'll have to find it and I'll send you a link.
Miss working!.
Then come back. :)
Ooops you did use the nutrients for garden lol 😂🤣😅
I love the comments!!! Thanks for interacting. :)
See anything else on other videos??? Please comment to help me do better with my communication skills. :)
What size Hitachi? 130ish?
Zaxis 27u
How do I get in contact with you Carl. ??
888-713-7771x4
Agents are on line now! Lol
279th Thumbs Up...good job...
Thanks!!!
I would have just filled it up and tried to back flush it with clean water, pumping out the dirty water underneath the aqua blocks the way your supposed to clean a wetland filter. Rather than ripping the whole thing up.
In a perfect world...
That truck load of soil would be very rich in nutrients for the garden.. 😥😣 Throwing it away? No way! What a shame.....
Fresh Impact Co, It’s dumped on the client’s property to be used in the gardens..... It’s also loaded with rock, so......
Somebody sold the house on without telling the new owners how to maintain the pond?
Exactly...... so sad 😞
True, but since the previous owners hadn’t done it themselves, that wasn’t likely to have happened to a new buyer.🤷🏼♂️
Anybody else think it’s a bit rich for these connected multi-millionaire politicians asking everyone for more money on every video?
Better not be Biden......