Aboveground vs. Belowground Ponds Overview

Reader Contribution by Darrell Rhoades
Published on February 5, 2014
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Ponds are amazing, mysterious, soothing and can magically melt our daily stress away. How are ponds able to creating these feelings? My personal thought is that they are part of what we are made of, because our bodies are mostly made up of water. Water gives life and it permeates our days with the gentle sounds of waves lapping on shore or from a fountain or waterfall, and with physical sensations from dangling our feet in the water and swimming. Without water, most life will cease to exist — which is why we need to consider the water resources on our properties. High quality water means healthy ponds.

Aboveground vs. Belowground Ponds

Let’s take a look at two different types of ponds. Both provide water, sound and various wildlife attraction. Let’s classify ponds into to two categories. The first one is built aboveground and the second is below ground.

Aboveground ponds. Some of the names aboveground ponds go by are Koi Pond, Water Garden, and Water Feature. These ponds are measured in gallons and, 99 percent of the time, they use a liner to contain the water. For a lack of a better term, we’ll call them a closed system, similar to an aboveground swimming pool where we install a liner to contain the water and a pump to circulate the water. Small aboveground ponds almost always have a waterfall built into them and sometimes a stream between the waterfall and the pond area. There are many variations to the abovegrounds: They can be built simply with a liner and a pump and would generally have Koi or goldfish. If you don’t want to deal with fish but want to have a water feature, you could build a pond-less waterfall, where the pond area is contained in a liner underground

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