{"id":30156,"date":"2022-05-15T19:06:24","date_gmt":"2022-05-15T18:06:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/aloland.v.paler.net\/photo-first-attempt-of-sealing-the-east-pond-with-bentonite\/"},"modified":"2025-04-17T17:21:10","modified_gmt":"2025-04-17T16:21:10","slug":"photo-first-attempt-of-sealing-the-east-pond-with-bentonite","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alo.land\/pt\/photo-first-attempt-of-sealing-the-east-pond-with-bentonite\/","title":{"rendered":"First attempt of sealing the east #pond with #bentonite."},"content":{"rendered":"<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1440\" height=\"1440\" src=\"https:\/\/aloland.v.paler.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/13\/2025\/03\/instagram_image-20250321-070118.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-30153\" srcset=\"https:\/\/aloland.v.paler.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/13\/2025\/03\/instagram_image-20250321-070118.jpg 1440w, https:\/\/aloland.v.paler.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/13\/2025\/03\/instagram_image-20250321-070118-1280x1280.jpg 1280w, https:\/\/aloland.v.paler.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/13\/2025\/03\/instagram_image-20250321-070118-980x980.jpg 980w, https:\/\/aloland.v.paler.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/13\/2025\/03\/instagram_image-20250321-070118-480x480.jpg 480w\" sizes=\"(min-width: 0px) and (max-width: 480px) 480px, (min-width: 481px) and (max-width: 980px) 980px, (min-width: 981px) and (max-width: 1280px) 1280px, (min-width: 1281px) 1440px, 100vw\" \/><\/figure><figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1440\" height=\"1440\" src=\"https:\/\/aloland.v.paler.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/13\/2025\/03\/instagram_image-20250321-070124.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-30154\" srcset=\"https:\/\/aloland.v.paler.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/13\/2025\/03\/instagram_image-20250321-070124.jpg 1440w, https:\/\/aloland.v.paler.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/13\/2025\/03\/instagram_image-20250321-070124-1280x1280.jpg 1280w, https:\/\/aloland.v.paler.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/13\/2025\/03\/instagram_image-20250321-070124-980x980.jpg 980w, https:\/\/aloland.v.paler.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/13\/2025\/03\/instagram_image-20250321-070124-480x480.jpg 480w\" sizes=\"(min-width: 0px) and (max-width: 480px) 480px, (min-width: 481px) and (max-width: 980px) 980px, (min-width: 981px) and (max-width: 1280px) 1280px, (min-width: 1281px) 1440px, 100vw\" \/><\/figure><figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1440\" height=\"1440\" src=\"https:\/\/aloland.v.paler.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/13\/2025\/03\/instagram_image-20250321-070127.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-30155\" srcset=\"https:\/\/aloland.v.paler.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/13\/2025\/03\/instagram_image-20250321-070127.jpg 1440w, https:\/\/aloland.v.paler.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/13\/2025\/03\/instagram_image-20250321-070127-1280x1280.jpg 1280w, https:\/\/aloland.v.paler.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/13\/2025\/03\/instagram_image-20250321-070127-980x980.jpg 980w, https:\/\/aloland.v.paler.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/13\/2025\/03\/instagram_image-20250321-070127-480x480.jpg 480w\" sizes=\"(min-width: 0px) and (max-width: 480px) 480px, (min-width: 481px) and (max-width: 980px) 980px, (min-width: 981px) and (max-width: 1280px) 1280px, (min-width: 1281px) 1440px, 100vw\" \/><\/figure><p>First attempt of sealing the east  with .<\/p><p>It&#8217;s already in a clayish area and the excavator did a nice job compacting it. However, there&#8217;s also a lot of rocks and it wasn&#8217;t holding water. We liberally sprinkled a 25kg bag of bentonite into the holes we could identify or suspected to be an issue. Water is flowing in now, let&#8217;s see how high it&#8217;ll get and how long it&#8217;ll hold.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>First attempt of sealing the east with . It&#8217;s already in a clayish area and the excavator did a nice job compacting it. However, there&#8217;s also a lot of rocks and it wasn&#8217;t holding water. We liberally sprinkled a 25kg bag of bentonite into the holes we could identify or suspected to be an issue. 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