After compacting a thin layer of soil a liner and gravel were applied to the pool s bottom.
Natural pool filter plants.
All it takes is a little bit of patience until the pool.
A cross section of a natural pool showing the plant zone and swimming area.
The precious nature of water constitutes a complex chemistry ever changing and behaving and reacting differently.
We used lane floats to make a barrier so they would stay on the regeneration zone side.
This hole is for the plants and other natural elements that will help to filter the water in the pool.
Hence each and every natural pool will not be the same.
There are far more plants at the moment than there will be at the end.
The benefits of natural swimming pools.
Natural pools come in many shapes and sizes and can mimic the look and feel of a lake or pond with sloped entries lined with stone rock.
Clear water revival s clearspring system is the world s first chemical free pool filter that fits into a standard plant room making it a like for like alternative to old style chlorine pool filtration.
A natural pool will function as it should if the regeneration area is designed correctly and the underwater plants are used properly.
Create an adjacent hole for the plant zone.
Together these two filter systems produce crystal clear water.
The origins of natural swimming pools.
Unlike most sparkling blue swimming pools natural swimming pools or ponds nsps are filtered organically rather than by chemicals another pool called a regeneration zone is built nearby which is where the water enters either a gravel filter or a constructed wetlands made of plants that clean the water.
In addition phosphorous can also be utilised by plants as it is in a natural pool.
Previously natural pools used planted beds to filter the water however our system requires no plants at all.
The idea of swimming in a pool that invited nature in rather than shutting it out with.
The hole should be 10 to 20 square metres 110 to 220 sq ft and 1 metre 3 3 ft deep.
The pool is fortified with zooplankton water fleas rotifers paramecia which play an important role in keeping the water clean on a continual basis.