Gatecrasher

Hi, bit of a long shot this one but was chatting with Mike R about this and he said to throw a post up on here as I may be quite surprised on what people on here actually do and know

I need a Land drainage engineer to help me with a piece of land that is holding water, I need to set some sort of Drainage system up to get the surface water off of it, I have looked on the net as I wanted to do it my self but the information on doing it yourself is useless

If anyone on here can help please don’t hesitate to reply or even Drop me a PM even if you not an engineer and just have experience or know someone who may be able to help

Thanks for your time

Ben

Martin-Hadland

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Have done this with Marco the digger,give me a call if I can help...

Gatecrasher

of all the people

Nice one Martoon im just going to work now but will call you at some point today

Reyland-Drainage Properly Drained Man!!!

Renton

Most people plant trees, Martoon plants wheelbarrows

JHS

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You're just jealous of his collection...

Marc LJX

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Thats just what i had done in my garden, slotted drainage pipe in gravel, and it works a treat

Mine just drains into the same drainage as all the gutters and sink waste etc...

juss 1

can also do land drainage by digging down and then putting in a layer of hard core (small to medium size rocks) and then re filling and turfing the hard core then acts like a sieve

Martin-Hadland

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Before we did ours we could have an inch or more of standing water sitting over most of the garden for days after a heavy rainfall, nothing at all now

foreigneRS

you need some clog wearing cheese heads to help out - they drained practically their whole country and part of ours (the fens)

Martin-Hadland

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That's called a soak away, it doesn't work if you have lots of clay in the soil, we dug an 8ft deep x 6ft square hole at the end of the garden and found that it just filled up with water and wouldn't drain away even after a week

Marc LJX

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Not long after mine was done we had a couple of days of solid rain, then an hour or so after the rain stopped i lifted the drain cover to see water gushing out of the land drain pipe
Well worth doing

dojj

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blimey i used to live in a hosue that didn't have a garden big neough to dig a hole that size in

Martin-Hadland

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We made full use of the hole and buried a couple of bodies before filling it in

Gatecrasher

Spoke to Andy, cheers for his number Martin its a shame he is so far away as i would have had him come and over see what im going to be doing

anyway after a chat with him the basics of what i need to do are

the above should be a lot deeper but due to the land only being 18 inches at the most from the top of the river this is what is going to have to be done

also i didn’t put up that im going to be using a system called Herring bone where every 6 meters i have another set of pipes either side of the main one shooting backwards

i know its not a very good picture but its the best i can get from Google earth and you can sort of see where the road and river are and where the drains are going to be put in place



The red lines are to give an indication of the lands boundarys and the white lines are the actual drains them selves with the road being at the top and the river at the bottom of the pick

will get some picks of the actual land up tomorrow

foreigneRS

looks like a good idea - but doesn't it allow the river to rise into the field up through the drainage channels without it having to go over it's bank?

Gatecrasher

Good point

But all the rivers around the surrounding area are all controlled by pump houses to stop them from over flowing or they would flood not only this piece of land but whole villages

I am going to allowed for the river to be at its highest point and then go 4inches above that so should be a safe bet

Who knows what will happen if the rivers do rise i suppose the land flooding will be the last thing on my mind as it could have a knock on affect to even where i live

AndyRS

That looks like a good idea

Gatecrasher