Removing water from small waterfall fountains

[Gary Fowler]

I have a couple of small fountains that hold about 50 gallons of water each and have to be cleaned occasionally. At first I was using my wet/dry vacuum to suck out the water which was a pain to do. I recently discovered that a quicker and easier way is to use my leave blower to blow all the water out. It stirs up the water and removes all the grass, leaves and algae and I get each cleaned in less than 5 minutes without getting on my hands and knees or messing with dumping a 5 gallon vacuum full of water a dozen times or more since I also had to use a hose to wash everything out. With the leaf blower, just blow it clean and nothing else is needed.

 

[adamrobinson]

Hey Gary,

Can you please tell me is these waterfall fountain portable?? & How much big it is??

 

[Gary Fowler]

The fountains can be moved but are very heavy. They have a 2" thick concrete lip around the pool which is plastic about 8" deep and 5 feet wide x 2 feet kinda clam shaped of water. The waterfall is 3 tiers high and of molded concrete also and the lip meshes into the water fall area. They were too heavy for me to lift by myself so I had my 2 part time gardeners set them in the ground.
I was removing the water with a shop vac and it took a long time to suck and dump the contents, plus had to hose water into it to clean up the algae. NOW with the leaf blower, I just blow it dry. All the blowing stirs up the water and pretty much cleans everything out as it blows the water and leaves out.