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Get rid of all the muck! Are you looking to clean up your pond or lake front so that you can provide a healthy aquatic environment? Outdoor Water Solutions offers Muck Pellets which digest accumulated pond muck, which is organic debris that reside at the bottom of your pond...

Pond Aeration: Solar, Wind, and Electric Options Are you considering an aeration system for your pond or lake but are unsure of which type would work best? More and more pond owners are purchasing bottom diffused aeration systems for their ponds or lakes. The benefits of having an aeration...

OWS Expands Pond and Lake Management Services in Northwest Arkansas Effective spring of 2016, Outdoor Water Solutions is expanding into pond and lake management services in Northwest Arkansas with a focus on sales, installation and maintenance of fountains and bottom diffused aeration systems. Areas covered include Springdale, Fayetteville, Rogers,...

Outdoor Water Solutions is pleased to introduce a new line of affordable, high efficiency solar aeration systems. Available with and without accessories and in multiple configurations, we offer several different solar aeration systems to meet your aeration needs, all with “Direct Drive” (DD) technology. Our solar aeration systems come...

  Windmills can be used for a lot of things.  They can be used to pump water, produce electricity and grind grain.  They can also be used to compress air; these windmills are called aeration windmills. Aeration windmills were developed about 30 years ago and have been improving ever...

When using a pond colorant or pond dye to control the algae levels in your pond, it is important that you use enough dye to effectively limit the light that gets to the algae. Algae is just like any other plant that depends on photosynthesis, if you take away...

Over time, large amounts of muck and excess organic matter can develop near the bottom of your pond. If your pond is already shallow, this excess matter can make the pond virtually unusable if it is not controlled.  Algae is a plant life form that needs three things to...

We recently had a question sent to us from a pond owner who is looking to prevent algae from growing and to combine “all natural” products with aeration. John Redd, Owner of Outdoor Water Solutions offered the following suggestions: Step 1:  Keep colorant in your pond year around.  It...

BalCam II Compressor Outdoor Water Solutions introduced a new breakthrough compressor design in 2007 that pumped more air at a higher psi through a single diaphragm utilizing a balanced camshaft approach and was named the “BalCam” Compressor. The compressor workload was balanced across the camshaft and center bearing which...

Is a Wind-Driven Aeration System right for me? Windmill Aerator Options: Every Aeration windmill that Outdoor Water Solutions sells has the same windmill head. We use the same blades, hub assembly, compressor, tail arms, and tail fins on all of our windmills. The only difference between the windmill shown...

Pond Algae Prevention Pond algae is a common problem in a majority of ponds, especially if they are more than 3 to 4 years old. Algae can come in many different shapes and sizes, but the most common is filamentous algae that looks like clumps and float in the...

Why is Bottom Diffused Aeration Better? There are lots of ways to improve water quality in your pond or lake.  If it’s fairly shallow, then a surface aerator or a fountain can do wonders in helping circulate the water and add much needed oxygen.  If it’s deeper than 8...

We often get the question, “Why use a windmill for pond or lake aeration when there are other aeration options out there?” The answer is quite simple. Your pond needs aeration to keep it healthy and using a windmill for aeration is one option for doing that. Windmill aerators...