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Club Meetings
We hold our meeting on the first Thursday of every month and start at about 8.00pm.You will be most welcome to attend (free for first meeting) and we would hope that you would like to join our club section.
| Graham and Sam Kerwood |
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Graham’s pond was completed a couple of years ago and holds 12000 gallons, measuring 27’ x 9’11” x 7’ deep. It’s constructed in concrete block and finished with black fibreglass. All the underground pipework is 4” and 1” pressure pipe, the returns are in 2” flexi pipe and 1½ black rigid. Three Sequence pumps run the pond with 10 returns, of these returns 5 are working at any one time. There are 2 x 4” bottom drains with air domes feeding the filtration which consists of 2 nexus 300 with eazys, 1 wide mouth skimmer with hydra, 2 x 55 watt pro-clear UVs and 4 air pumps (2 x Air-tech 40, 1 Medo 40 and 1 Hi-Blow 40). All the valves are ball valves 2 x 4”, 5 x 2” and 10 x 1½.
Heating is supplied by an 80,000 BTU Gas Boiler with under floor heating 100 meters of flexi heating pipe under pond floor. Full Specifications:12000 Gallon pond |

