Douglas C. Hoover
In 1982 Douglas designed and built Horton Café Garden Room restaurant in the Golden West Hotel in the Gaslamp District of downtown San Diego. He designed and built his first commercial waterfall in the southeast corner of the dining room of this restaurant. It was 16 feet tall. Shortly after the restaurant’s grand opening he was receiving an average of two telephone calls per week for requests to build waterfalls. The rest is history.
Twenty-nine years later, Mr. Hoover has well over 2000 waterfalls to his credit. The largest of these is 135 feet high using over 300 tons of rock on Mt. Soledad in La Jolla, CA. He has donated waterfalls to the San Diego Public Schools and to the charity group “Las Patronas” for their Jewel Ball Foundation.
His experience includes dozens of waterfalls constructed to spill into existing swimming pools, waterfalls for pool contractors, the conversion of swimming pools into koi ponds, and more. His work stretches from California to the midwest and he plans to open up an operation in Hawaii in the near future.
Doug Hoover is also an inventor of several pond products such as Nightscape2000′s Fountainlite, Wellite, FountainPots, Fountain Bowls, Fountain Urns and the Aquafill, electronic float control system. Recently he has developed a solar oven dehydrator kit. solardehydratorkit.com There is now one available for new swimming pools and a retrofit model for existing pools. Also there are Aquafills for hot tubs, swimming pools, spas, ponds and fountains of all types, including fountain pots, bowls, urns, container water gardens and small fiberglass waterfalls.
Doug Hoover’s work has appeared on the front cover of many magazines, including Ponds, Ponds USA, San Diego Living, San Diego Family, San Diego Home and Garden, Living in Style, and the May 2005 issue of Better Homes and Gardens “The Spring Planting Guide.” He was on the front cover of the October, 2006 issue of San Diego Home and Garden and that project won “Garden of the Year” award.
Douglas currently is a free-lance writer for six magazines and is the author of a first-of-its-kind construction manual for contractors that teaches every aspect of professional waterfall and pond construction. He also developed a digital design program to allow anyone to design a pond or waterfall by using his materials and digital design training video course. The Ultimate Training Course He is a staunch advocate of professional construction techniques using concrete and rebar as opposed to undependable liners. In addition to writing, he is involved in public speaking and conducting seminars and training sessions.
Doug is an expert author and his articles are widely published with over 82,000 readers on Ezinearticles alone. Doug’s vast experience and knowledge in this area has resulted in many requests for consulting contracts and expert witness requests.
A lengthy article written by him for Ponds Magazine recently describes in detail a new service he offers to clients word wide to digitally design a water feature. A digital picture is taken of the area picked for the feature. Then this photograph is downloaded on the computer into a digital design program. Finally, a virtual waterfall and pond are digitally created in the picture. The client can now see exactly what the project will look like when it is finished. For distant clients he not only can provide a virtual photo, but also a construction manual allowing them or their contractor to learn how to construct it themselves, professionally.
There is no one more knowledgeable on this subject than Douglas Hoover. He literally “wrote the book.”
