Well, it’s not really a cliff. It’s more a reveal caused by the slope and my decision not to create a huge berm on the low side of the slope to contain the lower pond but rather to dig into the slope. I have plans!!

It started out by simply driving around this area and seeing limestone/sandstone cliffs every time the highway department had to cut through a hill. Southern Indiana and Western Kentucky are a rockhound or spelunker’s paradise. I wanted my very own cliff.

HYPERTUFA: Then I read about a cement and peat moss and sand combination material that was light and had a more natural look than plain concrete. Why not use this material to coat the exposed liner and finish it to look like those cliffs?

MESH: I knew that just slapping the material on the liner wouldn’t work. The liner was flexible. The material wasn’t. It would, over time, just crack and fall into the water and raise the pH and make a big mess. Let’s lay it over some kind of mesh. I started out thinking about flexible mesh with hard stuff stuffed inside for contour. Then I discovered a metal mesh that is used by plaster and drywall people as a lath underlay for plaster.