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where can i buy a pond liner locally by saturday or is there something safer?

i need a pond liner by saturday.  I'm wanting to be as organic and GMO free as possible.  In my home I try to store things in glass instad of plastic and so it is ironic i am going to get a plastic hydroponic system. I had already ditched the idea of gardening out of my kid's kiddie pool for the reason of toxins being relased into the soil when heated by the sun.  I read that getting an organic pond liner can be the answers to this concern.  I got a deal on a running aquaponic system and we r picking it up saturday, which is why I need to buy it locally so I can get moving on this.  any tips for how to install it or is there something better? 

the person i am buying the aquaponic system from seems to have had success with the system, lots of fish and veggies.  he said he got it at tank n barrel for $120 and cut the totes, so i imagine they are food grade and i prob won't worry about them as much unless anyone here can speak to if they may still leach out BPAs or something into the water, then i may try to see if i can line the totes, too.  the one i'm mostly thinking of is the free tote a friend has for me.  in thinking of how i'll get as much of the water the fish are in now with the bacteria in it to my home it seems all around not easy unless i buy 55 gallon barrels, which won't be cheap.  having a free 260 gallon tote seems like my answer!  she doesn't know what was in the tote before and said it's not stamped food grade.  all she knows is that the prior owner of the tote had it for the purpose that they were going to or tried to do aquaponics with it.  i'm hoping that if i wash the tote then line I can bring it in a truck to the running aquaponic system, pump the water into it (after putting the fish in a cooler), then it will be easier to take the now empty tote home and transfer the water back.  there is also a large sump and the beds have water, too, but i imagine if i can save at least the 250 gallons i'm going to have a great start.  i have water sitting in a new recycle bin (never used) and coolers... in the meantime trying to gasoff the chlorine to add to the system when i get it home, but again, now am i contaminating the water with the plastic toxins or gassing it off.  i can't even leave them open much cuz we have small kids and chickens so i worry about drowning.  thx for any thoughts and sorry for posting this in another section.  i still have yet to read more but wanted to get the post out there since it is time sensitive.  i love the idea of aquaponics and now that i read more i am more worried about the health of the veggies and fish and want to feel confident that i can buy this system and know what we are eating from it is at a minimum better than what i'd buy at the store.  thx much!

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