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Chris Alemany🇺🇦🇨🇦🇪🇸

Waiting for my first doordash order after spending some time in the yard today moving the project along...

Repurposed one of the garden boxes from the back where the new patio/bbq/paellaria will be beside the #poolPond to the front around the northern spy apple.

Also pulled the dead stuff from the front flower box and added new dirt.

Will need to get some fabric or chicken wire to keep the neighbour cats out of the apple tree box.

I look at the backyard. It's a bit of a disaster. But there is progress. The large pool is empty now as is the other two smaller holes. All of the extra rubber and garden liner is in a pile beside the dirt. The garden boxes have been removedcompletely as the mail felt that was underneath the car. There is fresh dirt turned over it all needs to be leveled.
A garden box is around a small apple tree on the left hand side of a small driveway. There's a car to the right and a trailer behind.
A small apple tree stands in a box of dirt on the right side of the picture. The box is long and goes along the bottom of the side of the house. The house is blue.
#garden#home#yardwork
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Chris Alemany🇺🇦🇨🇦🇪🇸

Today we took the ridiculously large blocks of cement that were under each corner of the shed, to the dump.

I had originally thought I could break them up into pieces small enough to dump for free... but it became clear over the winter that there was not a tool strong enough or cheaper than just biting the $150 bullet

About 950kg total... moved with levers and wedges.

Only pinched one finger.
#bakcyardProject #poolpond

A medium sized block of cement is seen on the back of a small trailer. There are black plastic bags of garbage.
A pile of three large blocks of cement in a back yard. A tall blue house is in the background.
A young man stands to the right as a large block sits on boards slanting up into the trailer.
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Chris Alemany🇺🇦🇨🇦🇪🇸

#backyardProject #PoolPond Update!

Since getting the liner in at the end of November I have been patiently waiting for the holes to fill with rainwater so that I can confirm and if necessary adjust the level of the edges and the overflow points.

#1 The pump intake bay filled first and is emptying into the main pool as desired (the water will be drawn *into* the bay when functional). I’ll adjust exactly how and where the water is drawn in with rocks.

#2 The bog filter hole is almost full now. Hopefully today’s rain fills it. By all appearances it should empty from its southwest corner closest to the main pool as desired. There is lots of extra liner to deal with in that spot so it’ll take some refining to make it nice.

#3 The last will be the main pool. If all goes as expected, it should overflow somewhere on the long edge. It should be overtop the wall of the bay but not overflow the bay or the short edges. I want the overflow to be closest to the house drainage system which is under the chicken coop at the top edge (left corner in the first pic).

The ponds themselves look good. The water has flattened the liner to the bottoms and sides (and steps of the pool!) which should help solidify things. No leaks detected. The liner doesn’t have too many extra folds in the holes which is good.

When I get rocks to make the inner pond wall I will probably start by putting flat stone along the bottom to protect the liner and keep it flat.

Of course… before I do that, I need to deal with Dirt Mountain, finish the fence, and remove the car.

But for now… I like how still the water is. #silentsunday
#diy #home #today #homeImprovement

Two large ponds are visible covered in black rubber material. Closest is the bog filleted pons. It is about 30cm from overtopping in one corner closest to the larger pond which is about 60cm from full. There is a halzelnut tree just on the other side of the filter pond between it and a smaller pump bay. In the background is a yellow cover over a car.
A view from the opposite direction shows the main pool pond and the bay to the left. The hazelnut is reflecting in the water of the pond.
A look down into the end of the pool pond shows some sediment settled on the bottom but mostly the black liner stuck to the sides and bottom in folds and ridges through the clear water.
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Chris Alemany🇺🇦🇨🇦🇪🇸

Big thanks to @RandomCanuck for finding a CO2 answer!

This document (epdmroofs.org/wp-content/uploa) says standard 60mil* EPDM roofing membrane embodies 6.93kg of CO2/sqft.

So 45mil (1.143mm thick) will be 25% less:
6.93-25% = 5.198 kgCO2/sqft.

I bought a 70ft x 30ft section.
So 2100sqft x 5.198 = 10,915.8 kgC02**

That is equivalent to flying from #YVR to #HKG roundtrip, 13 times. Oooooff. That's a bit of a shocker. 🫢😐

OK, I guess I have some work to do to offset/capture some carbon in this here little pond/pool! The good news is, it will not feature any fish so I am hopeful that it will be, eventually, a carbon-negative operation as long as I plant it chock-full and periodically remove/sequester the compost to avoid methane emissions from decomposition.

*WHAT A STUPID MEASUREMENT lol “60mil” = 0.060in or 1.524mm thickness

** Holy heck I love the built-in math in the latest macOS/iOS update!!
#Ponds #Liner #CarbonFootprint #Rubber #BackyardProject #PoolPond

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Chris Alemany🇺🇦🇨🇦🇪🇸

Here's some info I found from Dow on a new process they say *reduces* various polluting factors by ____% but of course they don't give absolute numbers because then we would have actual information. 🙄

dow.com/en-us/document-viewer.

www.dow.comDocument Viewer
#Ponds#Liner#CarbonFootprint
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Chris Alemany🇺🇦🇨🇦🇪🇸

Just bought a lot of rubber….

Technically... I guess this is the largest carbon-purchase I've made in a few years, at least since I last flew a long distance. Now I'm curious on the carbon footprint of EPDM rubber materials. I'll have to go googling for the embedded carbon in rubber later.

#Ponds #Liner #CarbonFootprint #Rubber #BackyardProject #PoolPond
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