In addition phosphorous can also be utilised by plants as it is in a natural pool.
Natural pool filter plants.
This hole is for the plants and other natural elements that will help to filter the water in the pool.
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.
After compacting a thin layer of soil a liner and gravel were applied to the pool s bottom.
The origins of natural swimming pools.
Create an adjacent hole for the plant zone.
The pool is fortified with zooplankton water fleas rotifers paramecia which play an important role in keeping the water clean on a continual basis.
The precious nature of water constitutes a complex chemistry ever changing and behaving and reacting differently.
All it takes is a little bit of patience until the pool.
Finally our natural swimming pool is full and the filter pots are working with the water slowly spilling over their lips after passing through the charcoal and filters.
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.
A natural pool will function as it should if the regeneration area is designed correctly and the underwater plants are used properly.
Previously natural pools used planted beds to filter the water however our system requires no plants at all.
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.
We used lane floats to make a barrier so they would stay on the regeneration zone side.
Hence each and every natural pool will not be the same.
Natural pools were inspired by the beauty and joy of swimming in mountain lakes a team of austrian researchers are credited with launching a movement back in the 1980 s that saw chlorinated swimming pools being replaced by natural swimming pools and swimming ponds.
A cross section of a natural pool showing the plant zone and swimming area.
The benefits of natural swimming pools.
There are far more plants at the moment than there will be at the end.
The hole should be 10 to 20 square metres 110 to 220 sq ft and 1 metre 3 3 ft deep.