To diverge from general moanings. Swimming ponds are highly cools things. The basic idea is to create a swimming space with clean, low nutrient water using plants. Swimming ponds use two pools- one being the swimming area the other the vegetative region, where water from the 'pool' is circulated. The pools are not totally separate in the most common designs a wall exists between the two with a 10cm or so gap below the surface of the water throught which the water can flow into the regenerative pond.
Swimming ponds are not common. I've only found a smattering of information on the web, none from north america- some from england and german sites. Swimming ponds are becoming popular in germany and austria but as I mentioned nearly unheard of outside of that.
However there was an excellent article in the Royal Horticultural Society's - Garden - magazine, July 2005 issue. Also in my links section is an english website of some landscape architects that construct swimming ponds.
Check out the article and website(s). The Garden magazine in particular is a good overview and gets into the sorts of plants and construction you would need for a thing like this.
For plant and water lovers, a perfect combination that is also self sustaining and environmentally beneficial!
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