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Water
feature design and installation is a large part of Lance Landscape. We take a
tremendous amount of pride in our creative designs and quality products in this
division. We can design for you a water feature that best fits your property and
your budget.
Using only the highest quality products and installation
techniques, your water feature will require minimum maintenance and will provide
maximum enjoyment. There are many important factors in creating a living
environment such as aeration, wildlife, and bacterial growth and sustenance.
These determine the overall health of the environment and equally effect each
other respectively.
In planning to build backyard waterfalls, you need to
concentrate on two structures: the pool into which the water falls and the
cascading structure for the waterfall itself. The latter is often the more
difficult to build. It involves using rock, which many homeowners have right on
their own property (or can find readily elsewhere).
Once these two structures are in place, you'll use a pump in
the pond to keep water re-circulating from the pond to the top of your backyard
waterfall, whence it can plunge back down to the pond.
Backyard waterfalls come in all shapes and sizes and make for emphatic focal
points. When mulling over your design options, the main consideration is how to
achieve the necessary height for the waterfall.
Lance Landscape exploits a slope on the property, or else (if
the whole property is level ground) erects a berm (i.e.,
an artificial slope) to create such an area behind the pond. Either way, it
means a lot of work! When building such large backyard waterfalls, we lay
down a flexible liner on the ground between the top of the waterfall and the
pond, to channel the water. Boulders are then placed on
the liner to hide it and hold it down.
Indeed, many homeowners with small spaces in which to landscape would prefer a
smaller waterfall, as long as it brings the wonderfully soothing sound that
results from water striking water. One alternative is to use pre-cast concrete
forms that mimic stone for the cascading structure. They're compact and easy to
install, as they're simply stacked up over the edge of the pond. But they cost
money. If you have access to natural rocks, why not take advantage of a free
resource?
It is our philosophy that every outdoor waterfall and water garden should be
natural so we reconstruct the tendencies of water as it is in nature to enhance
sound and visual appeal. Using the finest material and placing each stone by
hand we believe that the job should be done right the first time and hold its
beauty for years to come.
Here are Some Images of Waterfalls
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