I was doing a little planting around the pond this weekend and manged to cut through my electric line running to the pond. Fortunately the circuit breaker triggered immediately and didn’t shock me. While it was easy repair the electric cord it was potentially unnecessary. So for those of you planing or in the midst of building your pond please do the following.
1) Do have your electric line run to a Ground Fault Circuit (GFC).
2) Use heavy duty outdoor electric cable which can be buried rather than standard Romex.
3) Trench deep and encase your cable with plastic piping. This will protect it from accidental shovel breakage.
4) While/before you have all the trenches dug, think about areas you might want to put additional electric sockets and install them.
5) while trenching think about low voltage lighting as well and run those lines.
