Ultimate Pondless Waterfall and Stream
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A pondless waterfall and stream is a waterfall and stream without a pond. Pretty simple concept. A pondless waterfall and stream is for those that want the look and sound of a waterfall and stream, but don't want a pond.
The waterfall is created using a patented Hydro Vortex™ waterfall filter. Water wells up through the filter then cascades down over rocks and boulders and down the stream. The water disappears into an easy to clean HydroSieve™ pre filter. Water passes through the HydroSieve™ into a HydroChamber™ underground water tank. There is no standing water!
A pondless waterfall and stream makes a beautiful addition to any landscape and can help cover road and neighborhood noises.
A pondless waterfall and stream is child friendly. A pondless waterfall is the safest water feature you can have. This is especially important if there are small children present. You can install a pondless waterfall and stream anywhere. Front yard, backyard, courtyard ..... anywhere you would want the sites and sounds of a beautiful waterfall and stream.
The Ultimate in Modular Design
The Ultimate pondless water fall and stream system gives you unlimited design options: Design the waterfall and stream in one section of the landscape and remotely install the HydroSieve™ pre-filter in another location, and remotely install the HydroChamber™ water storage tank in yet another location. Ultimate pondless waterfall and stream systems are modular to provide you with ultimate flexibility in your design.
Ultimate Pondless Waterfall with Stream
is Easy to Clean!
Each and every Ultimate pondless waterfall and stream system comes with a HydroSieve™ pre-filter that captures debris. No longer is rock and gravel used as a pre-filter as with conventional pondless waterfall and stream systems.
Ultimate pondless waterfall and stream is designed to give the designer more installation options, and for the end-user to be able to easily clean and maintain it themselves. An Ultimate pondless waterfall and stream gives installers more creative design options.
Ultimate Pondless Waterfall and Stream Systems are the Most Advanced
Ultimate Pondless Waterfall and Stream Features:
The biggest complaint that people have with a conventional pondless water fall and stream is algae.
All conventional pondless water fall and stream systems use rock and gravel as the pre-filter - whether over matrix blocks or not. The rock and gravel acts as the pre-filter. The rock and gravel traps debris that falls or blows into the pondless waterfall and stream. Decaying debris caught in the rocks and gravel feeds algae. Algae covered waterfalls and streams are an eyesore.
Another complaint people have with conventional pondless water fall and stream systems is that they have no other design alternatives. The gravel covered water storage basin must always be located the end of the stream.
Ultimate Pondless Waterfall and Stream Systems are Different!
The Ultimate Pondless Waterfall and Stream System
At the heart of every Ultimate pondless waterfall and stream system is the revolutionary HydroSieve™ pre-filter and HydroChamber™ pump chamber/water storage tank. Also featured is the easy to clean - fully backwashable Hydro Vortex™ Waterfall Filter. Combined with the HydroFlush™ Backwash System, you can clean your Ultimate Pondless Waterfall and stream in seconds!
Ultimate pondless waterfall and stream systems utilize the HydroSieve™ pre-filter to capture leaves, needles, lawn clippings, blossoms, and other debris. Simply empty the HydroSieve's™ stainless steel filter basket. The easy way to maintain a pondless waterfall and stream!
The Ultimate pondless waterfall and stream system is modular. It provides you with the most design options. Conventional pondless waterfall and stream systems always have the pump inside a slotted pump vault located in the gravel basin at the end of the stream. You then have to bring electrical power service close to the gravel basin.
The Ultimate pondless waterfall and stream system lets you install the HydroChamber™ near where you already have electrical service - even if it's away from the waterfall and stream! You can have the HydroSieve™ next to or away from the stream, and the HydroChamber™ next to the HydroSieve™, or away from it! It is all connect by underground pipe!
Conventional Pondless Waterfall and Stream Systems Just Can't Compare
Advantages of the Ultimate Pondless Waterfall and Stream System
The HydroChamber™ “all-in-one” pump vault and water storage tank provides unlimited pondless waterfall and stream design options. The Ultimate pondless waterfall and stream system is modular. You have complete creative design control of where you want your pump and water storage for your pondless waterfall and stream.
If you choose, it can be at the end of your stream. The most creative place to put your pump and water storage is completely away from and out of site from the end of your stream. HydroChambers™ “daisy-chain” together for unlimited water volume storage.
With the Ultimate pondless waterfall and stream system, you no longer are required to have the pump and water storage at the end of your stream.
Ultimate pondless waterfall and stream systems combine both a HydroChamber™ and HydroSieve™ pre-filter to replace conventional gravel filled water storage basins. The Ultimate pondless waterfall and stream system is so easy to clean that anyone can do it! A clean pondless waterfall and stream is simply more beautiful. Your pondless waterfall and stream will be a joy to own and be appreciated instead of being a dreaded maintenance nightmare.
The HydroChamber’s™ non-obtrusive lid resembles a typical round irrigation valve box found in landscapes everywhere. The HydroChamber™ becomes virtually “invisible” in the landscape away from your pondless waterfall and stream while remaining easy to access. The HydroChamber™ “all-in-one” pump vault water storage tank can be installed anywhere you choose.
Strong and durable rotationally moldy HDPE direct burial water tank - shown easily supporting over 400 pounds of strong pond builder men! The HydroChamber™ All-in-One Pondless Pump Vault Water Storage Tank lets you install it anywhere in your landscape. Instead of bringing electrical power to where you want your pondless waterfall, the HydroChamber™ can be installed where you already have electrical power!
HydroChamber™ All-in-One Pondless Pump Vault Water Storage Tank provides you with complete pondless waterfall and stream design freedom. The HydroChamber™ eliminates the requirement of having a large excavation with the pump and water storage in two separate devices contained within liner. It also provides you unlimited creativity for your pondless waterfall and stream design.
Cleaning Ultimate Pondless Waterfall and Stream Systems
The HydroChamber™ pairs with the HydroSieve™ pondless pre-filter for ease of cleaning. All conventional pondless waterfall and stream systems use rock and gravel as the pre-filter to the aqua blocks and slotted pump vault. The water forces debris deep down into the rock and gravel. NOT SO with the Ultimate pondless waterfall and stream system! The water forces the debris into the Hydro Sieve™. All you have to do is remove the stainless steel basket from the Hydro Sieve™ and hose it out! Compare THAT with hand picking debris from the rocks and gravel!
Two Questions You Need to Ask BEFORE
Purchasing or Installing a Conventional Rock Filled Pondless Waterfalls:
1. How do I clean the tree needles, flower blossoms, cottonwood tree and dandelion seeds, bird poop, and dead worms from conventional rock filled pondless waterfall basin?
2. What happens if I don’t clean it?
The answer to the first question is:
By Hand!
The only way to remove leaves, tree needles, mulch, grass clippings, flower blossoms, windblown seeds such as cottonwood and dandelions,
bird poop, dead insects, dead worms, bird feathers, and other debris from a conventional pondless waterfall basin is … by hand!
The answer to the
second question is:
Algae, and lots of it!
Debris decaying down inside the rock of a conventional pondless waterfall and stream basin smells terrible and grows algae like crazy! Algae grows on waterfall rocks, rocks and gravel within a streambed, and the basin rock itself. To control the algae, you’ll have to hand pick debris from the gravel basin, pay someone to do it for you, or apply large amounts of expensive algaecides regularly. This drastically adds to the cost of ownership of this type of pondless waterfall and stream. Ultimate pondless waterfall and stream systems save you these costs and lower your cost of ownership!
The Problems with Conventional Pondless Waterfall and Stream Systems
- Require Large Excavations
- Limited Design Options
- Virtually Impossible to Clean
- Grow Excessive Algae
- Become Maintenance Nightmares
- Become Eyesores
- Clog Over Time
- Eventually Need Total Replacement
- Higher Cost of Ownership
All conventional pondless waterfall and stream systems require the pump vault and gravel filled water storage basin to be at the end of the stream. They offer no creative pondless waterfall and stream design options. You have no choice with your pondless waterfall and stream design. The pump vault and water storage basin must always be connected to the end of your stream.
No matter the pondless waterfall brand: Aquascape, Easy Pro, Savio, Atlantic, Pond Builder, American Pond, Little Giant, Proline, Danner, and others …. they ALL utilized conventional gravel basins. Some use gravel covered matrix blocks - and the results are the same - hard to clean so they grow excessive algae.
Conventional Pondless Waterfall and Stream Basins
Are Difficult to Clean
Conventional pondless waterfall and stream system gravel water storage basins are difficult, if not impossible clean. Water is a magnet for wind blown debris. Even if you don't have trees, plants, flowers, lawn, or any type of landscaping whatsoever near your pondless waterfall.
The wind will blow tree needles, cottonwood seeds, blossoms, leaves, dust, mulch, and more into your pondless waterfall and stream. Conventional pondless waterfall rock and gravel basins will capture all that debris. The force of the water will drive it down into the rocks.
Debris trapped in the gravel basin will decay and feed algae. Over time it will eventually clog. This will happen with all brands of conventional pondless waterfall kits that require a gravel filled basin. Ultimate pondless waterfall kits let you easily remove debris before it can feed algae.
Conventional Pondless Waterfall Basins
Require Large Excavations
Why would anyone want to dig a huge hole in the ground only to fill it back up with underlayment, liner, multiple pump vaults, water storage matrix blocks, and tons of rock? The cost of the rock, gravel, pump vaults, matrix blocks …. AND the labor to dig the huge hole and to place all these things in it is much higher than HydroChamber™ All-in-One Pondless Pump Chamber Water Storage Tanks.
The HydroChamber™ is designed to house up to two pumps AND two matrix blocks worth of water storage in one single unit. It is also a direct burial tank so underlayment, liner, and rock is NOT required for water storage. Unlike the slotted pump vaults shown in this photo at the base of the water feature, the HydroChamber™ can be installed in a remote location away from the water feature - out of sight!
With the combined pump vault and water storage tank configuration of the HydroChamber™, the pondless waterfall basin can be significantly smaller than conventional pondless waterfall water storage basins. A smaller pondless basin requires less labor, saving you installation time and money.
With the “all-in-one” pump vault and water storage tank configuration of the HydroChamber™, the pondless waterfall basin can be significantly smaller than conventional pondless waterfall water storage basins.
Conventional pondless waterfall basins consist of a slotted pump vault, water matrix blocks, liner, underlayment, rock, and gravel. The HydroSieve and HydroChamber replace all that in a smaller space. A smaller pondless waterfall and stream basin requires less labor, saving you installation time and money.
As the sayings go: ... "You get what you pay for!" and "Pay me now .... or pay me later!"
What do you mean ... "Pay me later"?
Conventional Pondless Waterfall “Basin-Ectomy”
Over time, not even algaecides can solve the problem. The river rock pre-filter required by all conventional pondless waterfalls no matter what they’re called – Just a Falls, Pond Free, No Pond, Zero Pond – they ALL become clogged over time.
When the gravel and river rock gets clogged, water flow to the pump becomes restricted. Eventually the pump can pump water out faster than it can return – causing the pump run dry and burn out. The cost of repeatedly replacing a pump significantly increases the cost of ownership of conventional pondless waterfalls.
The only remedy to this problem is the complete dismantling of the gravel pondless basin. This is known as a “Basin-Ectomy”. It is the complete dismantling and removal of the clogged gravel, matrix blocks, slotted pump vault, basin liner, and basin underlayment and replacing them with Ultimate system equipment. Choose the Ultimate pondless system from Russell Watergardens and save time, effort, and money!
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