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OT: roof downspouts into field drain tile
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Posted by Lester Thomas on July 26, 2006 at 06:25:20 from (66.192.126.149):
Hi, I want to connect my roof downspouts into plastic drain tile that I will trench to run into a ditch about 800 feet away. How do I size the size of tile I need to use? I have 1400 sq feet of roof surface that I need to connect...it is only half the house, the other half runs down the hill. There would be a run of 800 feet that I would trench the tile in with a large ditchwitch. I could give it good slope - like 1 inch for every 100 feet (could go more)....
I want to make sure it is sized to handle heavy rains and not overflow due to backing up...
Will a 4 inch work, or do I need 5 or 6 inch?
Thanks in advance!
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