Ponderings from Cool Ponds

Cool Ponds uses a garden hose only -- not a power washer. Read on to find out why. If you have ever had someone other than Cool Ponds clean your pond before, there's a good chance a power washer was involved. It would seem to make sense -- getting the pond as clean as possible. Except -- we are talking about ponds here, not pools. Our goal with our ponds and our clients' ponds is to create an ecosystem. Why? We strive for water features to be low-maintenance, and a pond with an ecosystem is definitively low-maintenance. We aim to mimic Mother Nature. And guess what? There's no power washer in Mother Nature's tool cabinet. What does happen in nature are spring rains... rains that cleanse the water and remove the loose debris.  So that's what we do! We keep the ecosystem in place. We don't destroy it. The rocks have a slight green coating and that's good! A natural green coating should grow on all the surfaces under the water of your pond. This green coating, ...