Maruju pond rejuvenation - update
Posted 14 Sep 2009 - 16:21 by Mark Gardner
As mentioned the other day Maruju are presently rejuvenating one of their concrete ponds to bring the filtration up to date - http://www.niigata-nishikigoi.com/node/522.
I popped in today to say goodbye, see how they were getting on, and wish them luck for their tosai harvests which will start on the 20th.
As you can see the internal walls of the old filter have now been removed.
One of the family friends who is helping with the job was busily cutting the holes through the solid concrete wall to take the new bottom drain feeds.
Two of them had already been completed.
It took 10 minutes for the cutter to slice through the wall which is around 8" think, you can see it coming through below.
The resulting 'plug' of concrete below. I've gotta say, I was impressed!
Rebar is great stuff, until you need to break the concrete up! Flying sparks make for pretty nice pictures though.
With the harvests just around the corner I suspect that things will slow with construction and when I return at the beginning of October will be able to show more of how the pond will work.
