i have very sloped garden and have installed underground pipe drainage to ease flood at the bottom, however after recent rain it doesnt seem to have worked! any ideas?

mostyn harvey wrote:

i have very sloped garden and have installed underground pipe drainage
to ease flood at the bottom, however after recent rain it doesnt seem to
have worked! any ideas?

Where does your drainage discharge?

What type of soil have you?

Is the source rainfall directly on your garden, is it running off
from elsewhere or is it ground water?

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On 12-Jul-17 7:17 PM, mostyn harvey wrote:
i have very sloped garden and have installed underground pipe drainage
to ease flood at the bottom, however after recent rain it doesnt seem to
have worked! any ideas?

Have you taken into account the fact that drains need to be up slope
from the area that you want to keep dry? The idea is to divert the water
that would otherwise flow down the slope, rather than try to remove it
from the area that floods.


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i have very sloped garden and have installed underground pipe drainage
to ease flood at the bottom, however after recent rain it doesnt seem to
have worked! any ideas?





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On Wednesday, 12 July 2017 19:20:47 UTC+1, mostyn harvey wrote:
i have very sloped garden and have installed underground pipe drainage
to ease flood at the bottom, however after recent rain it doesnt seem to
have worked! any ideas?

we need a diagram


NT

On 7/12/2017 7:55 PM, Nightjar wrote:
On 12-Jul-17 7:17 PM, mostyn harvey wrote:
i have very sloped garden and have installed underground pipe drainage
to ease flood at the bottom, however after recent rain it doesnt seem to
have worked! any ideas?

Have you taken into account the fact that drains need to be up slope
from the area that you want to keep dry? The idea is to divert the water
that would otherwise flow down the slope, rather than try to remove it
from the area that floods.


I was just going to say that! The basic rule of farming is that you run
your drainage ditch around the *top* of your field, not at the bottom.
Speaking not as a farmer, but as an originally poor city kid who
eventually had enough money to keep a few horses.

mostyn harvey wrote

i have very sloped garden and have installed underground
pipe drainage to ease flood at the bottom, however after
recent rain it doesnt seem to have worked! any ideas?

That water has to go somewhere. Where does
the underground pipe drainage put the water ?

If it puts it into the council storm water system,
the water can't actually be getting into the
installed underground pipe drainage.

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On 7/12/2017 7:55 PM, Nightjar wrote:
On 12-Jul-17 7:17 PM, mostyn harvey wrote:
i have very sloped garden and have installed underground pipe drainage
to ease flood at the bottom, however after recent rain it doesnt seem to
have worked! any ideas?

Have you taken into account the fact that drains need to be up slope
from the area that you want to keep dry? The idea is to divert the water
that would otherwise flow down the slope, rather than try to remove it
from the area that floods.


I was just going to say that! The basic rule of farming is that you run
your drainage ditch around the *top* of your field, not at the bottom.
Speaking not as a farmer, but as an originally poor city kid who
eventually had enough money to keep a few horses.


Assuming you have access to the top....

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the problem is also what is the soil like. If its heavy clay then it is
going to be a big water store.
You would need to dig it all out and make it better drained for this to
work.
Its a bit like flood plains, they store water and release it slowly.


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mostyn harvey Wrote in message:

i have very sloped garden and have installed underground pipe drainage
to ease flood at the bottom, however after recent rain it doesnt seem to
have worked! any ideas?





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Not only a big water store. We found land drains (100 mm perforated
corrugated pipe filled with shingle) in a previous garden. They didn't
seem to do much, and when dug up as part of a garden redesign were found
to be choked with fine clay particles. I doubt that any water actually
passed through them.

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On 13/07/17 08:16, Brian Gaff wrote:
the problem is also what is the soil like. If its heavy clay then it is
going to be a big water store.
You would need to dig it all out and make it better drained for this to
work.
Its a bit like flood plains, they store water and release it slowly.


Brian

On 12-Jul-17 9:38 PM, jim wrote:
newshound Wrote in message:
On 7/12/2017 7:55 PM, Nightjar wrote:
On 12-Jul-17 7:17 PM, mostyn harvey wrote:
i have very sloped garden and have installed underground pipe drainage
to ease flood at the bottom, however after recent rain it doesnt seem to
have worked! any ideas?

Have you taken into account the fact that drains need to be up slope
from the area that you want to keep dry? The idea is to divert the water
that would otherwise flow down the slope, rather than try to remove it
from the area that floods.


I was just going to say that! The basic rule of farming is that you run
your drainage ditch around the *top* of your field, not at the bottom.
Speaking not as a farmer, but as an originally poor city kid who
eventually had enough money to keep a few horses.


Assuming you have access to the top....

You always have access to the top of a slope on your own land. What
happens above that isn't your problem.

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Nightjar Wrote in message:
On 12-Jul-17 9:38 PM, jim wrote:
newshound Wrote in message:
On 7/12/2017 7:55 PM, Nightjar wrote:
On 12-Jul-17 7:17 PM, mostyn harvey wrote:
i have very sloped garden and have installed underground pipe drainage
to ease flood at the bottom, however after recent rain it doesnt seem to
have worked! any ideas?

Have you taken into account the fact that drains need to be up slope
from the area that you want to keep dry? The idea is to divert the water
that would otherwise flow down the slope, rather than try to remove it
from the area that floods.


I was just going to say that! The basic rule of farming is that you run
your drainage ditch around the *top* of your field, not at the bottom.
Speaking not as a farmer, but as an originally poor city kid who
eventually had enough money to keep a few horses.


Assuming you have access to the top....

You always have access to the top of a slope on your own land. What
happens above that isn't your problem.


Ah right...
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