Drainage

[woodchuckie]

From what little of it I can see it looks like an old river slue, where the course of a river changed and left a low spot behind. It don't look ugly from the pictures and if you fill it in you will loose every tree that has it's root system covered. Of course you may loose them anyway if the water stays there long enough.

 

[project_X]

I'm not the original owner, I have the grading drwaings, which completely ignore the are in the woods and pasture next door, which are all higher than my depression. The location is difficult to get the fill/dirt into, have to cut through the woods, or drive across my septic field.

I am going to measure elevations this weekend.

Cheers,
Rob

 

[bigtiller]

Ask some of the local farmers for the name of a field tiler. They can remove the top of the hill with a cat, set up a laser, run tile through there and put the hill back in place. The tiling machines I have worked with could dig a 6 foot deep trench. If you can find something like that they may not have to cut the hill top off.