Pondless Waterfall?

[hp10BII]

I was at our local nursery yesterday and I was fascinated by a couple of pondless waterfalls that they had set up on the premises. I'd love to have a pond, but with kids and space at a premium, let alone the work to maintain and store fish and drive away pond loving critters, this may work for me.

Anybody set one up? Would love to see your pics...

Here's a write-up:

http://www.hgtv.com/hgtv/gl_design_water_features/article/0,1785,HGTV_3575_5239752,00.html

The set-ups I saw were small, I'm guessing maybe 6' long, 3' wide. They were selling the kits for DYI.

[CACAdmin]

Cool. My only concern with their setup is that if you got a lot of rain, it would collect and create a pond (the liners wouldn't allow rainwater to soak into the ground). However, you could set it up instead with a plastic bucket (bleow the surface) for the waterfall collection and run a plastic liner under the rock surrounding the bucket and use it to direct excess rainwater into the soil surrounding the bucket.

[Soggybottom]

Dang, I had a pic of a big one! I seem to have deleted it...:(

It was at the Koi place in the parking lot. Probably 6-8' long, 3' tall.
I'm guessing the bottom part was essentially a small pond filled with gravel. The water splashed down a big rock wall type thing and disappeared into the gravel. There was quite a lot of water, so they must have had a fairly hefty pump, and that couldn't be cheap to run.

I'll try and drive up there again when I'm nearby...

[CACAdmin]

That'd be cool to see, if you get a chance at a pic, Mr. SB.