A treatment pond is a small lake-sized body of water designed to treat fouled water by anaerobicbacteria. It is largely used by dairy farms and horse- and cattle-holding sheds or barns to handle animal effluent so that it can be returned to the paddocks as fertilizer and irrigating water. Small-scale treatment can be done in small ponds if the effluent is given sufficient time to be broken down into harmless nutrients, however, these smaller ponds may have to be divided in much the same manner as septic tanks. Anaerobic is a technical word which literally means without air. ... Phyla/Divisions Actinobacteria Aquificae Bacteroidetes/Chlorobi Chlamydiae/Verrucomicrobia Chloroflexi Chrysiogenetes Cyanobacteria Deferribacteres Deinococcus-Thermus Dictyoglomi Fibrobacteres/Acidobacteria Firmicutes Fusobacteria Gemmatimonadetes Nitrospirae Omnibacteria Planctomycetes Proteobacteria Spirochaetes Thermodesulfobacteria Thermomicrobia Thermotogae Bacteria is also the fictional name of a warring nation under Benzino Napaloni as dictator, in the 1940 film The Great Dictator... Dairy farm near Oxford, New York, July 2001 In many northern-hemisphere countries a dairy is a facility for the extraction and processing of animal milk (mostly from cows, sometimes from buffaloes, sheep or goats) for human consumption. ... Categories: Stub | Buildings and structures ... A barn can be: A farm building for livestock and hay storage A unit of area used by nuclear physicists This is a disambiguation page — a navigational aid which lists other pages that might otherwise share the same title. ... A pond is a body of water smaller than a lake. ... A septic tank is part of a small scale sewage treatment system often referred to as a septic system, which consists of the tank itself and a leach (drain) field. ...
Another suggested difference between ponds and lakes is that lakes are fed by rivers, creeks, and/or springs, while ponds are usually the result of rain runoff, modest springs, or perhaps a very small stream.
Ponds in heavily vegetated areas also display the formation of "scum", which is a common term for dead and decaying vegetation condensing on the water skin of the pond.
The word "pond" is sometimes also used to refer to the Atlantic Ocean in the expression "across the pond" (a deliberate idiomatic understatement).
Ponds are a great way to make the most of your garden and add a great feature to it.
Algae is also caused by decaying vegetation, the reason for this is the nitrogen which is released during the decay process is soluble in the pond water.
As with algae green pond water and blanket weed can occur in new ponds when most of the water has come from the tap and is high in nutrients like phosphates and nitrates.