day 27
While the pond was filling, I continued making pump connections and fussing with folds in the liner. I installed the faceplate on the skimmer. I was pretty nervous about having everything at the correct height and kept measuring it as the water creeped up. Jeremy was here for the birthday cookout and took some pictures of the first moments the pump was plugged in. The leaf trap was full of water, but there must have still been some air in one of the lines because the leaf trap emptied out and air bubbles came out of the TPR. I turned off the pump and took off the leaf trap lid and water came rushing back in, so I turned on the pump again and it stayed running without any air. The pump is really quiet. The one end of the pond has good circulation with just the one TPR pointing straight into the pond (I meant to put a 90deg elbow on it to direct it, but didn't have the right part handy). When I get the waterfall going, I think it will have good circulation.
