mrlullabye
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I have some property that has two real problem water paths. the lay of my property all slants downhill slightly to the south-west. on the north and east side of my property a culvert crosses both roads and there is no planned escape route for the masses of water coming out of those culverts.
The water has cut pretty far down already through the hard packed clay so there is some real doozy spots in a sort of Y shape. The tops of the Ys are the culvert and the bottom of the Y is where it dumps out on the west end of my property. my main problem is before the Ys converge. One leg of that particularly takes a tremendous amount of water and has some potential tractor flippers washed out.
I am thinking in the long run we will need a wider, but shallower water path. For the time being though I have a real hazard. I have dropped a few loads of dirt in it to see what happens and sure enough it just washed out. I am thinking I could dig in my wider ditch maybe 6 feet wide and 6 inches deep, then cut up some railroad ties and dig them in so their tops are at grade of where the bottom of my ditch will be. Then once they are in place slowly fill up to them with some dirt/clay. I am affraid that will also just wash though. I think if I filled all the way to the top of them in one go it would wash too fast but maybe if I just added 6 inches or so between rains it would build and keep some.
Do you guys think that would work?
The only thing more aggressive I can think of is to put hay bails in the really deep spots so that as the water washes, it will wash into the hay bails and eventually the bails will rot and the dirt they held might stay.
The water has cut pretty far down already through the hard packed clay so there is some real doozy spots in a sort of Y shape. The tops of the Ys are the culvert and the bottom of the Y is where it dumps out on the west end of my property. my main problem is before the Ys converge. One leg of that particularly takes a tremendous amount of water and has some potential tractor flippers washed out.
I am thinking in the long run we will need a wider, but shallower water path. For the time being though I have a real hazard. I have dropped a few loads of dirt in it to see what happens and sure enough it just washed out. I am thinking I could dig in my wider ditch maybe 6 feet wide and 6 inches deep, then cut up some railroad ties and dig them in so their tops are at grade of where the bottom of my ditch will be. Then once they are in place slowly fill up to them with some dirt/clay. I am affraid that will also just wash though. I think if I filled all the way to the top of them in one go it would wash too fast but maybe if I just added 6 inches or so between rains it would build and keep some.
Do you guys think that would work?
The only thing more aggressive I can think of is to put hay bails in the really deep spots so that as the water washes, it will wash into the hay bails and eventually the bails will rot and the dirt they held might stay.