Cohousing-L Mailing List: Ponds vs. Pools

[Kristin Becker (kbecker]

I'm curious in the cost difference between a nice big swimming pond like the
one here versus a pool.  Anyone with a pool in their community that could
give us a cost comparison?
Kristin

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Michael McIntyre" <michael [at] sunward.org>
To: "Developing cohousing - collaborative housing communities"
<cohousing-l [at] cohousing.org>
Sent: Monday, March 22, 2004 1:30 PM
Subject: Re: [C-L]_ Pictures of Ponds


>
> On Mar 21, 2004, at 5:54 PM, James Kacki wrote:
>
> > Did you build it from scratch or was there already a water source
> > there/
> > How much did it cost?
> > How did you build it?
> > I'd like to learn all I can from your experience, and probably others
> > would too once they have looked at the photo.
>
> http://www.twinoaks.org/gallery/land-bldg/w_pondbeach
>
> McCune of Twin Oaks community has this to say:
>
> "There was a creek there already that has at least a trickle of water
> most of the time.
> I think cost was about $20K. Someone else here would know for
> certain.
> We got soil conservation service to look at the soil. We hired a
> contractor with heavy equipment who knew all about ponds; he built
> the dam and overflow and contoured the land, removed trees, etc.
> We did the research on the "flowforms" and "biopool" that keeps the
> pond filtered and clean, and much of the installation work on that
> part.
> The hardest part was agreeing on actually building the thing and
> deciding where to put it."
>
> HTH,
> michael, who has visited Twin Oaks a number of times and lives at
> Sunward
>
>
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