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Re: draining a wet spot in field


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Posted by paul on December 28, 2009 at 18:27:03 from (66.44.132.155):

In Reply to: draining a wet spot in field posted by rick165 on December 28, 2009 at 17:38:42:

First you need to get the ok from NRCS. Big penalties if they catch you tiling something you shouldn't be. Wetlands are far more important than farmers.

Then, where will you drian the water to? Dump it on your neighbors, or you got a ditch to take it to? The outlet of the tile needs to be lower than the beginning of the tile. Water doesn't run uphill.

Different size tile, 4 inch to 8 inch is common for a lot of things. If you ever will hook up more tile, don't go too small. If this is all that will ever be drained by this, 4 inch should be fine.

It needs at least 24 inches of dirt on top of it, putting it about 3 feet deep is common.

Call for the utilities, so you don't run into a fiber optic or gas line or electric line.

Dig your trench, need a nice groove in the bootm, to support the tile, if it's flat bottom the tille will deform into a D shape & possibly crush. Trencher or plow machines make this; backhoe you need to weld on a blade on a couple teeth or work hard with a shovel.

Hand shovel some dirt on top of the tile, so you don't crush it wilth a loader full, or a rock, or ice chunk. You can use a tractor to fill up the trench; but get a little dirt on top gentley by hand so you don't crush it with the first dump.

You need a very, very shallow drop of the tile from the beginning of it to the outlet. Water doesn't run up hill. Hard to do that with a backhoe, tend to get bumps & waves. With talent or time, it can be done.

Often the wet spot starts a ways away from where you get stuck - be sure to tile enough ground, not _only_ the wetest area. Need to go past it, to collect the water before it gets most saturated.

--->Paul


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