Some things are difficult to reconcile. For example, the desire for a garden pond and the safety of small children in the household. Solutions for securing are primarily pond fences and electronic security systems.

A fence protects children and ponds from unwanted approach

Possible solutions for pond protection

The following solutions are available for securing a pond:

  • pond fence
  • Pond net or grid
  • Electronic alarm system

Securing with a pond fence

The most direct way of making a pond safe for children is certainly a fence. It effectively keeps curious small children and pets from getting to the water's edge - unfortunately, this of course also blocks free, all-round access to your relaxing oasis. Pond fences are therefore most suitable for purely ornamental ponds, which are intended from the outset to be viewed from a certain distance.

With a (lockable) gate, however, access to the pond can be restored quite easily. If the fence is installed at a generous distance from the water, it can even enclose the sun and relaxation area of a jetty around a swimming pond.

In order to impair the appearance of the pond less, you can cover the fence, which does not have to be particularly high to protect children, with an enveloping reed grass planting.

Pond net or grid

A variant for child protection that hardly disturbs the look is a pond grid or net from the specialist trade, which is attached a little below the water surface. The depths of the pond, where there is a risk of drowning, are thus shielded, but pond plants can easily grow through the mesh structure. However, it becomes complicated when it comes to caring for plants and water. According to the DLRG, networks have tended not to be safe enough.

Electronic child safety

If you don't want to surround your pond with an ugly fence or bar the water for reasons of style or accessibility, you can also use modern electronics. There are alarm systems specially tailored to ponds with plastic floating islands that trigger the warning signal when there is intense movement of the water surface. To avoid false alarms caused by wind, for example, a certain tolerance limit can be set.

However, the problem with such systems is always the reliability that can never be achieved 100%. Electronic connections - whether physical or wireless - are always prone to failure. In addition, an alarm can easily be ignored.

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