This will not be a traditional Christmas Eve for Erie County. Southerly down sloping winds will ramp up during the day followed by a major high wind event from about 8 PM Wednesday through perhaps 3 AM Christmas morning before slowly subsiding. Please secure anything outdoors such as Christmas decorations early today. If traveling to [...]

What a year, well at least it seems we got through it ok for now. With a long winded winter and wet spring dragging into summer we were able to get things done in and around our ponds and more importantly helping those of you be email and our local pond owners with the help [...]

Planning a pond or lake means preparing and planning for the 100 year rain storm. The what if scenario of bad weather, rain storms , snow melt even hurricanes can provide such an abundance of water that the pond system may not be able to handle the in coming water, down pipe or even your [...]

Here we go with the first snow fall on the pond of 2014, just getting started and more to come. All the ponds are ready for winter with fountains cleaned, prepped and stored away. The aeration systems are ready as well with moving the diffusers to shallow water to keep a hole in the ice [...]

Running Diffusers in Winter is a good plan, but we need to doing a couple things first. First up is the water temperature, once it drops to 50 degrees it would be time to move the diffusers to a shallow part of the pond. Let’s say you have one diffuser in the center of the [...]

As we look outside, we see the leaves changing, cooler temperatures and those fall clouds, sadly it is a reminder that the Pond Season Is Almost Over. What can we do to get the pond ready for winter? First up is all the growth around the pond, plants and weeds both need to be cut [...]

There are bacteria all around us, some good, and some bad even some that can be deadly. Our focus is the good guys we use for healthy, clean water and eliminating muck. The good pond bacteria already exist in and around our ponds, but they’re not overly abundant to do the job, or to keep [...]

The answer is yes and no. Let me explain my goofy answer. The pond in question is a pond 100 x 300 and five feet deep. Currently has one diffuser in the middle of the pond and a 4.6 cfm compressor. And the specific question was about adding a larger compressor producing 11 cfm. The [...]

Pond Cleaning is not an overnight fix. It took years for the pond to get into the condition it is now and will take time and patience to bring it back to life again. One of the first options that come to mind is to dredge the pond, get all that muck out of the [...]