FireFighterZero
Captain Zero!
I forgot the before pics.
To give you an idea the ends of the branches were on the ground.
To give you an idea the ends of the branches were on the ground.
lagoon |ləˈɡo͞on|
noun
an artificial pool for the treatment of effluent or to accommodate surface water that overflows drains during heavy rain.
That's the owner's hope -- that more sunlight will help matters. My straw vote is for him to get some cat tails and water lilies going, as well as flooding it with 5,000+ gallons of his well water. That might make the water less black and lean more toward gray. As it is, I threw away my gloves from today and washed my hands about 10 times and took a 20 minute shower when done, as well as spraying down all my scratches with H2O2. Hopefully all those countermeasures will help me avoid any chance of septic shockCool gig. I would have hope the "lagoon" would have been a crystal clear spring...that's a pretty ugly cess pool looking bit of water.
Maybe the work y'all are doing will let it clear out some. Good work there.
Hey Mick, is that an Avant articulating loader you have? We've considered them but have been more leaning toward a mini skid steer (Vermeer/Ditch Witch). Love to hear your impressions & firsthand perspective.Using the temporary road today, Cherry removals, pleased with the lack of rutting after multiple passes heavily laden.
I'm not diving in that kind of lagoon! I didn't take depth measurements, but given the slope and diameter of the pool, I wouldn't think it was more than 4-5' deep currently. It looks to be at low levels since we've been in drought conditions -- it needs a couple good rains to get it back up to normal levels and more clear water mix to get it functioning normally.How deep is that lagoon? We dove some in Florida years back that were 40-50 feet deep and connected to caves...looked a lot like that.
That's actually what you do want -- more sunlight to stimulate positive algal growth. Here's a good primer on it from a Missouri extension article. (I used to live on a property in Missouri that had a functional lagoon, properly set up).You mentioned in a post a while back that the water could clear with more sun. I would have thought the UV would attract algae and make it more of a sludge pit.
The property we were on sure definitely bypassed the septic tank portion of the setup for settling out solids for at least 48 hours before overflowing and was lacking the tall grasses around the perimeter. At least adding sunlight was a good first step, but the owner definitely needs to take further steps to fix the lagoon setup.The process that takes place in a lagoon is a natural one, with microscopic plants and animals coexisting and dependent on each other. This relationship causes the water in the lagoon to turn green with algae at certain times of the year. Sunlight is essential to promote this algae growth. Algae produce oxygen through the photosynthetic process. In this stabilization process, bacteria release carbon dioxide that is used by the algae in their growth process. Another oxygen source is breezes blowing across the lagoon surface. When wastes are broken down, some of the material is given off as gases in the air and small amounts of solids settle to the bottom of the lagoon. In a properly constructed and managed lagoon, solids will not likely build up to where the lagoon will need to be cleaned out.