Pond....over a sewer pipe!

[sandim]

Got a client the other day that wanted us to fix his nightmare of a pond, which was illegally installed supposedly by him but possibly another company...right over a city sewer pipe. Needless to say he failed to mention that at first until we drove an hour to the job site in a down poor.
Hmm....can anyone say 'soil remediation'!
Just goes to show every time you think you've seen it all, there's something out there you haven't yet seen.

[Stonehenge]

Installed over the pipe, or over a drain? How deep was the pipe? Sounds weird.

[sandim]

Installed right over the pipe. Upon first glance the way it was set up I thought it was a rock or a hump of soil that would need further excavation. The guy was very odd. He had the biofalls spilling into a very small pond (where the pipe was) and then branching off to a waterfall and a stream, both of which fed a larger pond. The waterfall was lower than the stream and he couldn't figure out why the stream was more of a trickle than a stream. I called the town just to double check and was definitely told to steer clear so that was a good out for me. Phew!

[waterworld]

Installed right over the pipe. Upon first glance the way it was set up I thought it was a rock or a hump of soil that would need further excavation. The guy was very odd. He had the biofalls spilling into a very small pond (where the pipe was) and then branching off to a waterfall and a stream, both of which fed a larger pond. The waterfall was lower than the stream and he couldn't figure out why the stream was more of a trickle than a stream. I called the town just to double check and was definitely told to steer clear so that was a good out for me. Phew!

I had a job very close to this one only the guy called me after a plummer had to go under the pond for the water line. Bad mess, had to remove the pond and rebuild in back yard. Put in a very nice flower bed in the old spot with several new plantings.