Hints on Building Your Own Waterfall using Liners and Rocks

It is not easy to build your own waterfall using liner when slopes are involved. It is not my intention in the gazette to go into great details. Rather I want to point out where the difficulties lie and the broad solution available to you ....

You need to build a frame work for your planned waterfall ... you cannot just place a piece of liner on a slope and then place rocks around the edge. rather create a series of terraces so that each terrace cascades gently into the next lower one.

Each terrace should be a like a small self contained pond with edges to prevent water being lost from the sides and of course an outlet. So you dig a series of suitably sized holes making the base of each hole flat .... you will do this by digging into the slope of soil

Each "small pond" must be able to support itself ... ie the walls will not collapse when it rains for example so by far the best way is to use a firm base and build up the sides using bricks or blocks as if you were building a shallow concrete pond.

The outlet lip for each "small pond" must be 4 inches lower than the pond brickwork.

Once completed place the liner in position and make sure it overlaps the brick edges down the length of the waterfall. You can then place a final layer of bricks or rocks or whatever to hide the liner edge that passes over the brickwork.

This is one good reason to consider buying a fibreglass rock like waterfall or stream ...  direct from the factory in Pretoria

See the latest water garden site by the Pond Professor