If you want to remove your garden pond, you should start by rescuing the plants and animals safely and unharmed. After the water has been drained, dismantling of the site can begin. Building rubble and plastic waste are hazardous waste and must be disposed of properly.
How do I properly remove a garden pond?
To remove a garden pond, pond inhabitants should be rescued and forgiven, the water drained, plants and mud disposed of, and the building structure (film or concrete) professionally dismantled and disposed of. Finally, the resulting pit is filled with sand or earth and compacted.
It doesn't happen often, but sometimes you have to give up your property, your house and therefore your beloved oasis on the water due to professional or private reorientation. So it's time to dismantle the garden pond, even if it's difficult and will take a lot of work. Even if you can't always set the date yourself, the ideal month forremoving a garden pond is in autumn, when most of the pond's inhabitants are already retreating to their winter quarters.
Rescue and use of pond inhabitants
If there is enough time available, it will certainly be possible to sell some of the pond plants or parts of the fish stock via the well-known classifieds portals. If this recycling doesn't work, other pond owners will definitely be looking forward to free offspring for their aquatic plants andgiving them away is still better than having them end up in the compost. The best way to do this is to empty the garden pond at least halfway using a dirty water pump and fish the animals out with a landing net.
Drain water and dispose of mud
If the pond is very overgrown, there can be a lot of biomass. Larger plants may even have to be chopped up with an ax so that the former bank areas can be restored without leaving any residue. Beforehand, the remaining water is drained off in order to remove the accumulated pond sludge after a dry phase of two to three days, which is disposed of in the compost.
Dismantle the structure of the garden pond
Depending on the design, the foil is now removed or the plastic pond is pulled out of the empty pit. For concrete or masonry, a sledgehammer works best; the broken parts must bedisposed of separately as building rubble and usually for a fee. This also applies to PVC film and remains of the pond bowl, which are classified as hazardous waste and must be taken to a nearby recycling center.
Finally, the excavation pit is filled with sand or earth and then compacted.
Tip
When dismantling the garden pond, use a pump to drain the water; make sure that it has a sufficiently dimensioned filter so that it does not run hot with the mud that is sure to accumulate.
