mmidlam, Quite a few years ago, I made a blunder with our original water lines. We had them buried 4 feet deep, but used our TD 20 dozer to clear some trees off and grade a building site for the garage and garden. Well when finished the water line was only about 2 ft deep. That winter they froze. We tried to heat the ground to no avail. For a temp fix we run it above the ground til spring.
We pre assembled this set up. We wrapped both 1 and 1- 1/4 lines with visqueen, then wrapped that with R-13 fiberglass insulation, rewrapped it with visqueen(plastic) and put it in a 6inch corrugated(non perforated) plastic tubing.Sealed both ends with can of spray foam insulation, and buried it 8 feet deep, with 2 inch high density darafoam on the sides and top of the tubing when put in the ditch. Around here our ground will freeze 5 foot deep if walked on and 7 feet if driven on,atleast that was what the engineers told us at Dupont insulation department when we called them. With all said and done,we are good. The city of Rice Lake uses the 2 inch darafoam on top and sides of their city water lines on new installation to stop freeze ups, they are only 45 miles from us to the south. Pictures are what we did with ours. Hope it helps, LOU
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