Im using duct tape because there is NO trench right now so the grade isnt a
perfect downhill run. There are spots where it runs a little up hill... and
where the couplings are (And I am using the barbed fittings) the water seeps
out and makes it absolutely pointless to use the pipe in the first place. I
put the duct tape on to try to minimize this leakage. Im doing the temp
thing with the pipe to try to dry the land up so I can get a trencher in
there to do the job right.

The pipe will come out of the ground at the back of the lot and into a small
ditch that hooks into a larger drainage ditch a little further down. Sounds
like Im screwed since it will freeze there? What can I do? There has to be
something. Would the warm water that comes out keep melting the ice at the
end??

Who should I call for help? Plumber? Septic System guys?

Thanks for the advice,

Mike

"Gary Slusser" wrote in message
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"B" wrote
The corrugated pipe itself is reasonably indestructible, and there's
nothing
better for your purpose, so go for it. If the water freezes in the
pipe you
put below the frost line, then I guess the surface water won't be
flowing
that day either and your sump pump will not be running. If you really
have a
warm spring under your house when it's 0 degrees outside and the far
end of
your pipe is frozen, then you'll just have to have a backup pump and
blow it
out the window. The key phrase in my reply is "nothing better".

I've picked up on the phrase.... and I'll say the best is rolled 160 psi
rated 1" PE tubing rather than a couple joints in corrugated tubing,
which he says he's having trouble with now. But then he's using DUCT
tape!!, they make insert barbed fittings for that material and they
don't have to be water tight. PE tubing is used for pressure lines in
wells and service lines to buildings and direct buried. It lasts decades
as long as the trench and backfill doesn't have sharp or large rocks
thrown on it.

But then if he used perforated corrugated tubing and prepared the trench
and covering right and made a French drain across the wet spot in the
yard at the same time, that might be the best WAY to do the job.

But you have to have natural drainage at the end of the pipe or it will
freeze, so none of this coming UP out of the ground. And it sounds as if
you have way too much water for a dry well unless you get a backhoe in
and do it right.

I think he needs to look at the size of his sump pump pit and make sure
it is sized right and the setting on the pump so he pumps more water
once the pump turns on than this little bit every so many minutes.

Gary
Quality Water Associates