On Jun 13, 6:54 pm, mm wrote:
On Wed, 13 Jun 2007 09:07:50 -0700, wrote:
A *hole* is opening up between two concrete pipes in my driveway under

What is your driveway made of?

Some houses are on lots that have a drainage ditch right next to the
road, parallel to it, and they use pipes where the driveway goes over
the ditch. Is that what you have?

Does water run through the pipes when it rains or is it some other
way?

How wide are the pipes?

How deep aree they?

the rock and dirt that goes over my ditch. The hole is about 3 inches
in diameter and I guess rain has disolved the dirt underneath the rock
just above the two pipes. I can see that the two pipes underground
were not joined together well and there is about an inch or so of
distance between the two pipes. Short of digging them up completely,
pushing the two pipes together and then putting dirt and gravel back
over the two pipes (which would take some time) what advice would you
give to fix the problem?

I though I *might* get a large stone paver and just dig down to the
pipes and place that over the top of the two pipes, fill back with

Something that wraps around and fits closer to the pipe seems like a
better idea to me, but I don't have a sense of the whole picture yet.



dirt leaving the pipes separate (they have been down there separated
for years anyway) and put the gravel back on top. What do you think?
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These pipes are not very deep in the ground actually. There is only
maybe about a foot or less of dirt covered by gravel on top of them.
The pipes are probably only around (and I need to go out and measure
them) a foot in diameter at most as an outside dimension. The pipes
are as you say...the ones that you drive over to get in your driveway
that are put in the ditch and are covered over so that you can get in
the driveway and to your house. They are there to 1. drive over the
ditch and 2. allow for water in a BIG rain to pass through to the
other side in the ditch. When the work was done (I am the 2nd owner
of the house) I was not there, but I don't think they took much time
really connecting the (probably) 3 pipes properly. They just laid
them in the gound about end to end, dropped some dirt and then some
gravel on them and they went on their way. Now it is my problem.