Keeping Your Landscape Fountain Clean

Keeping Your Landscape Fountain Clean Proper care and regular cleaning are important to the longevity of water fountains. Keeping Landscape Fountain Clean 4838784058.jpg

Keeping Landscape Fountain Clean 4838784058.jpg

Leaves, twigs, and bugs very often find their way into fountains, so it is important to keep yours free from such things. Also, algae has a tendency to build up wherever natural light meets water. To stay clear of this, take vinegar, hydrogen peroxide, or sea salt and add directly into the water. There are those who like to use bleach, but that is hazardous to any animals that might drink or bathe in the water - so should therefore be avoided.

Every three-four months, garden fountains should have a good cleaning. Before you start cleaning, all the water must be eliminated. Once it is empty, scrub inside the reservoir with a mild cleanser. Feel free to use a toothbrush if helpful for any tiny crevasses. Any soap residue that remains on your fountain can harm it, so be sure it is all rinsed off.

Calcium and fresh water organisms can get inside the pump, so you should disassemble it to get it truly clean. Letting it soak in vinegar for a couple of hours first will make it alot easier to clean. Build-up can be a big headache, so use mineral or rain water over tap water, when possible, to reduce this dilemma.

And finally, make sure the water level is consistently full in order to keep your fountain running optimally. Low water levels can damage the pump - and you don't want that!

Water Delivery Strategies in Ancient Rome

Water Delivery Strategies in Ancient Rome Previous to 273, when the first elevated aqueduct, Aqua Anio Vetus, was built in Rome, inhabitants who dwelled on hills had to go even further down to get their water from natural sources. When aqueducts or springs weren’t available, people living at greater elevations turned to water removed from underground or rainwater, which was made available by wells and cisterns. From the early sixteenth century, water was routed to Pincian Hill by using the subterranean channel of Acqua Vergine. Through its initial building and construction, pozzi (or manholes) were installed at set intervals alongside the aqueduct’s channel. While these manholes were manufactured to make it less difficult to preserve the aqueduct, it was also possible to use containers to pull water from the channel, which was exercised by Cardinal Marcello Crescenzi from the time he bought the property in 1543 to his death in 1552. He didn’t get sufficient water from the cistern that he had established on his residential property to obtain rainwater. Fortunately, the aqueduct sat under his residence, and he had a shaft established to give him accessibility.