French Drain Project.

[JSUnlimited]

Donman,

Around here red is for electric, yellow is for gas. Unfortunately I had to cross all of the utilities. The gas line was about 24" the electric (phone and cable also) about 24"-26", and my water line I never did find. I was 36" deep over the water line and never hit it.

 

[JSUnlimited]

Highbeam,

Just FYI, my BH bucket was only 12" and thats what I stuck with. I thought about over digging to get a wider trench but I thought with only one 4" pipe a 12" trench would be enough. Dad and I have used a trencher before for the same type of project at his house that had only 6" wide width and had good results.

After the majority of the project was done, we had aprox. 2" of rain the next afternoon. None of the runoff from the hill made it past the area of the trench.

 

[Highbeam]

Constructability and proper bedding of the pipe being a seperate issue. - These tables are great from a pipe construction perspective. I am asking about drying up a site.

Does the width of a trench affect the ability of these types of dewatering systems to dewater the site?

 

[SLOBuds]

</font><font color="blue" class="small">( Sorry there were no pics between the open trench and the finished project but mother nature was on the way. Here is just after being done. We ended up with 2 inches of rain in about 45 minutes. This usually would have been a river and had standing water, however this project ended all of that. )</font>

Is that a dinosaur bone in the lower-center portion of that image???? It looks to be in almost perfect condition.

You could probably sell that on EBay.

Martin