If you own a fish pond then sooner or later you will need to know how much water it holds. This is to allow especially for medication of sick fish when dosing levels are important.
Well I've made this easy using an Excel calculator which you get free here ... click for pond calculator.
The basis for the calculator is to sketch the shape of the pond (easier if you do it on graph paper) then divide the surface of the pond into equal sized square blocks. You then count the number of blocks covering the actual pond surface.
If you know the area of a single block then you can calculate total area of the pond surface ... number of blocks x area of one block.
If you take this area figure and multiply by the average depth of the pond you will get the actual volume of water in the pond.
You can get the average depth of the pond by taking a stick and inserting the stick at 10 different points noting the depth for each point... adding up the ten results and dividing by ten will give you the average depth.
There are 12 pond calculators in the series and I will describe each one over the next 2 weeks or so.
It's important to use consistent units and this is why the free calculator is a good idea.
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