Healthy Winter Ponds
Keeping Pond Water Open During the Winter
More and more pond owners are inquiring about cost effective ways to keep their ponds open in the winter months.
Keeping the pond open has many benefits. It can help keep the fish healthy and alive. It also allows for sun to penetrate the pond body and produce additional levels of oxygen through photosynthesis.
Keeping your pond open prevents the ammonia and C02 gases from being trapped under the ice surface and killing off your fish populations.
For hunting enthusiasts – the open pond attracts geese and other wildlife to the pond’s edge for hunting purposes.
Whatever the purpose, keeping you pond, or at least an area of your pond, open in the winter months has many advantages.
One of the simplest, most cost effective ways to do this is by aerating your pond. By dissolving oxygen into your water from a bottom up aeration method, you can keep an area of your pond open while at the same time improving its health.
Windmills that aerate ponds are one of the most reliable and cost effective ways of doing this. They operate in all types of weather conditions and temperatures. Companies like Koenders Windmills Inc. and Superior Windmill Inc. build their windmills to last decades.
© 2007, Pond Owner Magazine.
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Get Rid of Pond Algae
How to Get Rid of Pond Algae and Weeds
Pond owners are always writing into our magazine asking us for ways to get rid of their pond algae and weeds.
Most are looking for a pond treatment to rid themselves of these pesky aquatic irritants. The truth of the matter is, pond chemicals may provide a short term fix to your pond problem but the long term solution is much simpler.
Pond chemicals and other pond treatments immediately kill the aquatic vegetation, but that does not address the fact that there are reasons why algae and weeds are thriving in your pond. In most cases, its due to a lack of oxygen in the pond and an abundance of nutrients and bacteria present that are feeding the vegetation.
So to address this issue, you need to burn off the nutrients and bacteria in the pond there by attacking the food source of the problem. This way you will not have to worry about the problem any longer.
Aerating your pond is the way to address this issue. By simply increasing the levels of oxygen in your water – you will be providing an escape mechanism for the very things that algae and weeds thrive on.
Pond aeration is not something that the pond chemical industry talks much about. If you were in their business you wouldn’t either. Pond aeration is a sustainable and environmentally friendly way to address the pond algae and weeds problem. That means, you will never have to use a pond chemical again. Great for you and economically rewarding too, but no so good for the pond chemical industry.
There are electric aeration systems and windmill aeration systems that are offered in the market. If you are in a moderately windy climate then you will want to research windmill aeration systems – they are extremely reliable and they do not require electricity to run.
© 2007, Pond Owner Magazine.
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A Good Cause for Pond Aeration
Non-Profits Saving Pond Water with Aeration
Some non-profit organizations are turning their attention over to saving ponds and lakes by mobilizing their efforts and seeking the support of local communities to donate to a worthy cause. Clean and Healthy Water!
Fresh water is a valuable resource all over the world and North Americans sometimes take our abundant supply of fresh water for granted. Take a look in your communities – would you swim or fish in the local ponds and lakes?
Non-profit groups are cleaning these water ways up by installing aeration systems. Pond aeration systems burn off excess pollutants and bacteria from the water body and restore it back to it natural state.
The use of chemicals to control pond algae and weeds have in many cases caused more harm then good to these ponds and pond professionals are starting to learn that the best way to control algae and weeds is to aerate their ponds.
Windmill aeration systems by Koenders Windmills and Superior Windmills seem to be the number one choices for these non-profits. There are no electricity or operating costs once the windmills are installed and the reliability of these units are exceptional.
These windmill are built to last decades and with little to no maintenance required, no wonder – windmills for pond aeration is fast becoming a mainstream product category in the pond aeration industry.
If you have a polluted lake in your area – consider moving forward with a fund raising effort to clean the water and help not only the people in the community but also its wildlife. Stagnant ponds are a health hazard for us all!
© 2007, Pond Owner Magazine.
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