How to Put a Pond in Your Yard

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By Joanna Lin, Staff Writer

When driving by Mike Garcia's Redondo Beach house, people tend to stare.

They gawk, ogle and rubberneck - so much so that Garcia says the street could use a stop sign in front of his house. ("I don't want to cause accidents," he reasons.)

What's slowing traffic is a waterfall in Garcia's front yard. It's one of the more than 500 ponds and waterfalls Garcia and his company, Enviroscape, have built over the past decade.

Based in Redondo Beach, Enviroscape is a contractor specializing in residential and commercial landscapes and ponds. Enviroscape is one of only eight or nine certified pond builders in the world, according to the International Professional Pond Contractors Association.

"It's a very select group. ... We're more interested in quality than quantity," said Dave Jones, executive director of the Woodstock, Ga.-based IPPCA, which has 120 members throughout the U.S., Canada and Australia, and began certifying pond builders in 2004.

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