removing ponds and water table advice

Hi all,

I have a pond which I need to remove as I have a toddler running about the place and don't want to take the risk. The problem is the water table is as high as the pond level and we had problems with the water table water pushing the pond lining up. I have removed the lining but the water won't drain away out of the hole that is left. Does anyone have any advice on what to do?

Thanks
Dan

 

There is a rigid safety net you can get. I think it sits just below the surface (I mean millimetres rather than inches!) so that if a child falls in they can't actually get under water at all.

I wonder if that would allow you to keep the pond, but make it safe?

Edit: This is the sort of thing I am thinking of:

http://www.safapond.com/

 

If you have a high water table there is not much you can do other than dig a hole and install a sump pump to pump the water out.

Any hole you have dug e.g. the existing pond is just a hole that is closer to the water table than the remainder of the garden. Lowering the water of the water table is the only real sulution. Unless you can raise the whole garden which is possible but certainly not cheap.

 

I thought that would be the case. The only thing I can think of is filling the existing whole with rubble to maintain drainage then build a raised bed. Luckily the area effected is only a small area of the garden.

I am looking to turn the area into a vegatable patch, how deep would raised bed need to be to sucessfully grow vegatbles?

Dan