Thankfully I had my Grunden's top with me that is nice and warm and water proof as it dumped on me for much of the time I was working. The task for the day was to remove all the basalt rocks and boulders then to shovel out the river rock and remove all the pond liner. You can see burned down houses in the background on the street below.

I started at the bottom and got the basalt out of the pool, tossed them all to the side.

I then worked my way up the feature and removed them and the slate fall rocks. I tried to pile everything to the side to make it easier on myself putting them all back in.

Within 2 hours I had the basalt all out and was working on removing the river rock, starting at the top. The top part of the feature I shoveled the river rock to 10 gallon plant pots to be able to pull the liner.

I stopped for a minute and ordered the pond liner for pickup later. A 5x30 and 10x15 pieces.

I laid the liner out on the side and used it to shovel the river rock onto. I HAVE to reuse the river rock so don't want it all mixed with even more dirt and debris.

I shoveled most of the stream out to the upper pile then pulled all the liner and laid it out around the outside of the bottom pool. As I pulled the liner river rock rolled downhill into the main pool. The worst part of the job was shoveling ALL the rock out of the main pool and onto the liner. I was then able to remove the pool's liner section.

The river rock is going to have to get washed off to clean it of mud, soot, muck, and dirt so I am bringing my pressure washer today.

The pump is on order so I will do the plumbing work once it comes in. By 12:30 I was packing up my tools and ready to go pickup the liner and underlayment.

I stopped at Horizon and got them loaded into the truck, then headed for home. I was rather sore from the morning's effort.

The first air lift pump was done on the #3dprinter but it had borked part way up the finishing of it. It still should be enough to mount the 4" pvc to. It is printed in 100" infill for strength and to allow Isaac to thread a metal air nipple into the air port. I got another started printing, though it borked at the same spot overnight. Still should work for him. He will be coming to the job today to help and to learn what he can to apply to his giant feature I helped with on Sunday.

@stryeyz and I had our couple's session then went to Twigs in Wandermere for dinner. I have only eaten there once before, though I have worked on their water feature before... A 2 acre pond with a moderate sized waterfall.

Today I go back to the feature job and Isaac will be there this morning. The underlayment will go down after smoothing the course and removing a few MASSIVE roots from the main pool area. Then the pond liner will go down. River rock will get washed, basalt will get a rinse, and then the basalt will get stacked and falls recreated. All in all it has gone pretty smooth so far. I hope the rebuild goes as smoothly today.

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