How to make a Natural : Organic Pool in America 

Facts wtf

Lets not forget the guys with the shovels. As an operator they always make me look 10 times better spotting for me and doing the fine touches as I sit in my seat in ac pulling levers and cracking jokes. Lol

@@Johnny1.0 someone has to run the grade stick. 🤷🏻‍♂️

Depends on the dirt also

@@FV-rc8oc Georgia clay

That would be nice

Yeah I would like to see it too.

is it healthy for humans?

@@JosephAzzopardiRummiena No, 78.32% of humans die in natural swimming pools.

@@lokanoda Its true! I seen 'em!

Doesnt the liner breakdown and fill the water with plastic by products over time?

@@bernadettesandoval3990 If you're not heating the water in EPDM tubes, like solar hot water heaters (to heat your pool), it should be fine. From my research: normal temps are probably ok. Hot water in EPDM is not ok.

Are you American? This is typical British self effacing humour!

@@disarchitected You’re not the first person to say so, but yes, I’m second generation American. 😊

⁠@@disarchitected. Do Brits truly use self effacing humor? That may explain why I use it, although I am American. Friends have pointed out that I am both self deprecating and self effacing. I have explained that I am a product of my upbringing. I am too old to change now. Maybe it is in my genes! My family had our DNA tested three years ago. We are 99.98% English and Scottish. My only non British ancestor was from India in the 1600’s. No doubt someone with the East India Company fell in love with a beautiful or handsome Indian! We were expecting American Indian ancestry but have East Indian instead!

eeveeloution 42o I live in northern Wisconsin! I also live on a lake! there's a huge difference between lakes and rivers and a small stagnant pond! im sure you been around stagnant water and I know you wouldn't swim in it!! lakes and rivers have a natural filtering system!! A stagnant little pond doesnt!

I agree with Jimmy Joe. I find this natural design very attractive, but there are health concerns. However, that doesn't mean that an effective filtration and sanitation feature can't be engineered into it.

Don't get mad that you can't deal with your parasites. That's what happens when you swim in stuff like that. Shame on you.

Flesh eating bacteria

Right through the butthole

I upvoted this video for the digger sculpting alone.

Chris Vise Do I have not. What about flesh eating disease and snakes and leaches???

Naegleria fowleri

It's ok Chris same. These people city slickers who Think pond waters nasty When they pee in their pools

@@cooliipie as long as you keep your water clean and clear from algae and from snakes then it's okay. Not only that but any snake I see, i kill it.

@@cooliipie and those amoeba I like the saltwater purification idea, but man, I don't want creepy crawlies. A pond is for fish and birds and frogs and stuff.

Check out natural sealing methods if you're going to make a pond you want to last, the synthetic material they used for this is a little sketch to me. What happens to that in a couple of years? Personally I'd rather just have a family of ducks haha

Where do u see hate???

Caesar alternatively he could just look at the hate in your comment

@Caesar I'm probably smarter than dont call me a dumbass

@Caesar ok whatever, I guess ur opinion doesnt matter cause idk u

Caesar ah, 4D chess. I respect that.

Melanie Cambria YOU'LL REGRET BUILDING SOMETHING LIKE THIS! it will attract mosquitoes and eventually smell like rotting vegetation!!

Just look into moving near a river lol

WalkOnBye ugh. Nothing yet. Too many other projects. Thanks for checking though. Gives me push.

I'm an engineer. It is not porn to my eyes. Relax

I so agree 100%

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@Kirinin Kiri it's an ellipsis

Mallorie Erin 😆😭😆😭💀

Yes!!!!..... But. A sign of leaving creatures in your organic pool is a good sign. It means that the water is chemical free and pure. You can add a fence around the pool to keep pest/animals away from your pool and also as a safety concern for little kid's. It's a win win scenario, Keep kids safe and keep unwanted animals away. There's always another way to go around fixing and making things perfect. That's how we humans learn. Trial and error. P.S. I hate tadpoles too. Let's all be positive and try to figure out things together and help one another.

Vocho's Granja your comment makes 100% sense and yet... I don't want no baby frogs swimming near my hooty...

Mallorie Erin Its clearly semen

Mallorie Erin your fear is not unwarranted. There is a species of american frog which has a tadpole stage that is known to swim up and into human and animal orifices and lay their eggs. Once a park ranger found a sick black bear and a couple thousand tadpoles just burst from it's anus.

Yeah, I'm getting all these comments from these babies?

canvasch haha right?

In drag.

Jutt Davies +15614041833 Illuminati

i dont think it freezes under tho its too deep, only the top of the water probably freezes

when its winter lol fish animals everything eats les do you get it now?>

Like a gay stop sign

Brendan Stanford what does that even mean

YYZY Shitty. Its going to look Shitty.

lmfao wtf

Brendan Stanford We believe you, you're the expert in the homoerotic business 👌🏻

you could add some underwater solar powered lights..

College Silverstacker great idea. thanks!

Jessica De La Cruz Bravo the black liner really helps to heat the water. also since this is more like a pond the water isnt going to be crystal clear like a chlorinated or saltwater pool. there will be a slight brown/green tint to the water and you cant see it with the dark liner.

I build one in Brazil, I add one eletric pump with 1HP, which pumps the water over a hill to make a waterfall that helps with oxigen and makes the place more nice to swim and after the pump I add an Ultra violet light filter, wich helps to control the algae and kills any microbes which can be suck by the pump, without adding any chemicals to the water, there is also some fish wich eats bugs. In amazon there is this option, but I thik you can find much cheaper one's: www.amazon.com/NuvoTM-Ultraviolet-Sterilizer-ground-Swimming/dp/B0167C673S/ref=sr_1_4?ie=UTF8&qid=1510181662&sr=8-4&keywords=ultraviolet+pool

Jessica De La Cruz Bravo Hi there Well you can line it with any color, and use light color beach gravel, also a water filter would be nice to, but that will filter the food for the natural habitat and algae will take over - this way you have ...really a natural pond - no chemicals leaching in your body, someone here mentioned mosquito problem,...mosqito larvae in the water will be eaten by the tiny young fish! Meaning like 100% of it...

Your grandmother is very attractive and well liked I might add.

@@mikah4051 she was for sure. Cheers.

Oh shit you're here

wtf why

Lecnaj Sinalem it's kinda like the movie! the ring or poltergeist!

Don't forget that the liner was flat black. Not like a pool liner that's usually blue to make the water pretty. Also I didn't see any images of sunny days.

The thing that scares me about it is, how do you know there isn't a deadly snake or depending on where you live a Crocodile in it?

+HelloThur 👍

its a bubbler.. lmao the bubbles go up, creating pressure, which in turn sucks water through the gravel acting as a filter. fish tanks have the same setup

Have you ever tried to get out of a pond that has a bentonite clay bottom? Pretty slick.

Some people seem to ignore all the plastic. We never use it. We employ clay seals that last centuries instead of a couple decades like plastic.

Matt, we use bentonite. Our ponds and lakes are much cleaner than what is seen here. Bentonite just requires a lot more knowledge to employ effectively.

i also dislike using plastics in a natural pond but i like david's approach, you dont find much people nowadays who can make a natural pond filtration fit in a urban setting i'm planning to make a clay pond in my garden, i've been experimenting with clay to test its hydrolic conductivity under various compaction rates and with various sand/aggregates mixes but from what i know so far, clay only works with a gentle slope so in addition to the bigger bog area, a sharp slope like in this pond is hard to make with clay unless there is a bigger slope from the outer edges till the deep point then you fill in the walls with an impermeable material to make the bog/pool separation wall

@@BeautifuLakesStreamsBiologists Trying to shill your products on another channel is just sad.

small fish to eat them

Danny Kyle considering it has constant moving water... you will be fine..

the fish are going to eat them, plus that if some may escape, you can buy a few solar lamps with insect repellent under 2 dollars each, and no problem. Since, a brain you can't afford, to find this extremely simple things by yourself in books, google, youtube, facebook, twitter and everywhere else shoved straight in to everyone's face, but hey, I bet you still checking about beyonce and her shit in her belly, sorry I mean pregnancy :-D :-D

vladorcolac are you british

no im not

Tim Mac Boi...

Tim Mac no it means bugs snakes and critters! it means stagnant water because no filter is used!!

I find the term "organic" kind of silly and inaccurate too. I think _natural earth pool_ or _constructed earth pool_ is a more accurate name for this design.

Jimmy Joe ... Stagnant and filter refer to unrelated concepts.

Yes. You can eat it. You can eat a pond.

Antibiotics have been around for less then 100 years. People have been swimming in natural water far dirtier then this since... well we have ALWAYS been swimming in natural water, and so has life going back billions of years. You do realize that every square inch of your body is SWARMING with bacteria, you have something like 3-4lbs of pure bacteria/micro organisms in your gut. Everytime you breathe, swallow, or touch something you are both transferring and picking up micro-organisms/bacteria. If your a germaphobe, thats fine, its a condition and maby its not your fault... but don't delude yourself into thinking that its the right way to be and that we are in constant danger of anything that isn't completely sterile... If you were to measure the amount of bacteria cells on and inside our body versus our own living cells, it would be as little as a 1:1 ratio and as much as 10:1 in favor of microorganisms, many of which are crucial for our survival. Good luck!

You might want to actually read up on how these natural pools work before expressing another uninformed opinion.

proformer No ur not or else you will be bombed.

Duhh.... Over there you need democracy and freedom no pools!

The oxygenation in the water helps balance the ecosystem. All those frogs, dragonflies, and other cool things will eat those mosquitos

Youssef Darwich but what about the bears? 😂

+Mallorie Erin - It's just part of living with nature, I guess... ?

Cheryl Cooper me and nature would have to have a talk 😂

+Mallorie Erin - Lol! :-)

The difference between a natural pool and a natural pond, is the level of nutrients in the water(or atleast thats a big part of it). If your pool has low levels of nutrients in it, then there is very little of the fundamental life needed in the food chain of aquatic/semi aquatic organisms. Yes, life will move in, but probably not that much if done properly. Also, if this life isn't harmful to humans what does it matter?

We love that this misconception permeates the natural pool industry.

Natural Ponds Lakes & Streams by Spring Creek Aquatic Concepts please stop calling filtered ponds pools, if you have a natural spring on your land you can make a pretty decent swimming hole. Still going to have a swampy situation on your hands though

WIth enough knowledge of aquatic ecology the ponds / pools or whatever will stay clean over the long term. You aren't going to get that knowledge from some DVD you bought online, however. The waters we build do not have filters like what is described in this video.

Matthew Meek you don't know very much lol

oh oh oh so scary

The Don Mills pusssyyyyyyyy

The Don Mills parasites? tf? you sound so stupid 😂

The Don Mills At first i was really fascinated with the pool but then i came into your comment and realized how creepy it would be.

Don't be ignorant. The snakes will leave but you must give them a moment.

haha same

Same thing xd

Your not very bright are you?

DVII Binion are you?? he obviously has very feminine features. I for one thought he was a woman, probably most people not familiar with this channel will think the same thing

josh j same lol

dartanion 007 - as does any pool? What's your point?

Erock Stoenescu well its not like you can just plug in the vacuum.

dartanion 007 - nope but there's nets to scoop it out

yeah like the regular pool stay clean with out doing anything to it

Erock Stoenescu dont get me wrong I think your ideas are great.Maintenence would be much more unforgiving was my piont.I have a regular pool with a few bottle brushes around and ph issues,debris,staining are always up me and I live in a country where trees arnt even deciduous .on ya though.