Dirt Moving how do you build a driveway...

[rmk700]

related question: if my drive crosses a slope, the drive will cause a dam. using your above gravel/rock suggestions, how many/how large diameter of drain pipe would place at the base to move water? i have about 200 feet of driveway to create, and think i'll need to have it cut into the grade but am worried about rain/melting snow damming up.

As long as it's not a continuous stream a 12 inch pipe should be adequate.

 

[shortthrow50]

related question: if my drive crosses a slope, the drive will cause a dam. using your above gravel/rock suggestions, how many/how large diameter of drain pipe would place at the base to move water? i have about 200 feet of driveway to create, and think i'll need to have it cut into the grade but am worried about rain/melting snow damming up.

No way to know for sure without looking at the volume of water and knowing how much water flows on your property buddy. **** i would just do 2- side by side 12 inchers under the driveway and not one large one so its not so big. Nobody knows but you the amount of water flow. you got any video? ?

 

[dakotagun]

Sorry about the lack of info. My driveway will run from the road across much of my lot to the house. A lot used to be a wheat field, so no running water but a slope right to left as you drive across it. so there is no running water, just rain and melting snow. It is mostly clay. Maybe I can post a picture later it's getting late in the season for this, hence my anxiety. Move-in date is about a month, only two months late.

 

[vtsnowedin]

Yes it is a matter of how large an area up hill from the drive drains across the drive. If it is small enough, which it may well be on just a 200 foot drive ,you can grade in a side ditch as you build that will carry the water down to the side ditch of the street your drive ends at. You may need a drive pipe and a permit at the street anyway to keep your drive from interrupting the drainage flow there. If your drive was longer and intercepting a couple of acres worth of runoff you would have to let it pass to the low side with a culvert under your drive every three hundred feet or so with ,as was said, the exact sizes and spacing determined by the drainage area and predicted peek flow.
Just to add in after your last post, if your house is lower then the entrance at the road you will want to let the water cross under the drive so as to not channel it down to the house and yard.