This one-day class will help you properly design, maintain and manage your pond to minimize water quality problems while maximizing aesthetics and function. Starting with design, learn how to build a pond, including recommended water depths, volume and flushing relationships, shoreline shape, integration of aquascaping benches, and optimal design of outlet structures.
Learn how to:
- Implement a dredging project
- Collect and interpret data using a bathymetric survey
- Prepare (and master!) bid specifications
- Select a qualified contractor
- Determine sizing, placement and equipment selection of aeration systems
(including fountains, submerged aerators and horizontal circulators)
Other topics include:
- Biological control techniques
- Maintenance plan considerations
- Test dredging of sediments
- Plant species and plant control methods
- Use of algaecides and aquatic herbicides
- Dam care and maintenance – earthen embankments, permit requirements and periodic inspection
Plus a full review of applicable environmental permitting and regulator issues!
Learn about combinations of landscaping and engineering solutions (often called aquascaping or bioengineering) for eroded shorelines and how to create a vegetated shoreline edge using native, non-problematic species. Fish habitat creation, the stabilization of undercut shorelines, buffer creation for nutrient and pollutant removal, vegetative goose control strategies and enhancement of the aesthetics of the pond’s edge using easy to maintain plantings will also be discussed.
Faculty Coordinator:
Dr. Stephen Souza, President of Princeton Hydro, LLC, has over 20 years experience managing and restoring lakes, including extensive work with lake associations. He is the Past President of the North American Lake Management Society, an ad-hoc member of the State’s Lake Advisory Task Force and the Past President of the Pennsylvania Lake Management Society. |