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Originally Posted by pjj2ba
Actually, I'd buy into the idea of a spring. A slope like that should drain fine if it was simply runoff. Around here it is fun (I think) to drive around in winter on the highways through the big rock cuts and see huge frozen icicles from springs that pop out sporadically from the rock wall. Either way it still needs to be addressed. I'd say you are a great candidate for some conventional drain tiling. Maybe contact someone locally who does septic systems. Barring that, I'd be tempted to did a large trench (1-2 ft wide by 1-2 ft deep) through the affected area and fill it with gravel to within 6" of the top and then with soil.
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I have a natural spring or an artificially induced one. The ground absorption from the easement could be letting go of it at the low spot. The soil at the easement reaches a saturation point as the low spot oozes water due to gravity.
Either way I do need some tile. The wet spot that I remember seeing when I bought the property was quite small but the it had source-evidence due to erosion from the easement. One could see the tall grass knocked down by gushing water flow.
The new property changes are forcing me to do this, it kind of pisses me off if you know what mean. Its not like I didn't know there was an issue, I just didn't think it was going to get this bad with developement.
My neighbors could do something to minimize the flow with french drains and solid tile to direct the water to the other low spots.
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