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 03-21-2004, 21:06 Post: 80654
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newkurch: any farm supply store will have perforated plastic drain tile. I think 4 inch is around 30 cents a foot. if you think you need bigger a 5 inch surely would be big enough except in a cloud burst. unless the catch basin is in the drive its self you really don't need one. Just fill the last three or four feet of trench with pea gravel not crushed limestone, the freezing and thawing will eventualy cause the crushed rock to crumble into lime sealing your drain shut. Just keep a 1% grade or more to the tile outlet and you should be fine. Hope this helps, Frank.






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Something I forgot,no matter how you design your system intakes, size the tile, etc. do yourself a real favor and put an animal guard on the end of the tile at the outlet end, I've dug up a few too many pluged tile with a muskrat that had been there a little too long blocking the flow. Frank.






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TomG; in my earlier post I talked about keeping the grade at 1% or greater. You are right the steeper the grade the more water a drain will carry. I guess I was speaking of field drainage tile. We live in an aeria where a non submerged outlet is almost a gift from above. We've ran (with a laser) as flat as 1/10th% grade to get an outlet out of a low areia, you're right it is slow to drain but it does work. When I was a kid (shortly after the Pilgrims landed) I worked part time for an Uncle who was installing the sewer hookup lines from from the main line in the street in our new town sewer system to homes around town. First day on the job he ran the hoe and guess who was in the trench with a pointed shovel and a four ft. level. He said "keep it on a half", I asked him what he was talking about, his reply was keep the level on half a bubble other wise it's too steep and will plug. I really never knew what degree of slope a half bubble is on a four ft. level, but so far I've never known of any I helped install giving trouble. Frank.






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