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day 13 and 14
So what have I been doing for the last week and a half? Last Sunday, I was a guest for the Mississippi Valley Watergarden Society meeting/pond tour. I will join once I get my pond finished. I remembered that I was going to run an air line to the bottom drain for adding a diffuser later, so I had to order more Uniseals and do some more research. Obtained 55 gallon drums from one of the car wash places (free!). I decided to make the pit a bit wider and longer after I put the 55 gallon drums in it. I added a channel to the vortex pit for the vortex drain, instead of digging the whole floor deeper. Lowes, etc. didn't have the right type of 3" shower drains, so I am going with 2" drain for now on the vortex. I also finished the skippy.

05_chamber_channel I dug a channel in the floor of the chamber. It's a bit deeper than it needs to be since the depth of the concrete will add to the total depth, but I figured it wouldn't hurt anything. A 3 06_chamber_vortex The unfinished vortex sits in the barrel chamber. 04_skippy_inside The skippy is all done except for the weir. I will fill with water and check for leaks after I get some pipe plugs. 03_skippy_outside I finally went ahead and finished the inputs on the same side as the output. It was harder than I thought to get the 2 02_vortex_bottom The bottom of the vortex is ready for mounting the 2 01_vortex_edge I cut the top off of the vortex barrel (55 gal), leaving the factory rim for better structural integrity. The cut I made was where the rim flattened out to make the top.