Pipe buildup

[Dutch445]

happened to look in the ditch by the road today, and I
see this gunk at the end of a drainage pipe that I
layed in last summer. I have noticed a bit of
the same colored stuff around that ditch, coming from wherever,
but this was the first time I ever saw it accumulate in
1 place. I took a small stick, and poked it around, it
had the consistency of thin peanut butter, and once
I moved enough of it, the tile started draining off,
as it had backed up a ways I'm sure.
any thoughts? is it an iron product coming from the ground??
oh, and a couple little frogs enjoyed the ride out of the
pipe with the water!

 

[Zick]

Dude, it looks like your pipe took a dump!
I have no idea what it is though.

 

[Dutch445]

Yea,
I'm sure it felt better after I released
that backup!

 

[CrownHawg]

Looks like somebody's been flushing pumpkins!

 

[Western]

That is strange, would be neat to send a little to a lab.

Anyone in the neighborhood missing a cat????

 

[/pine]

If that pipe is not wet all the time...it could be something a mouse or chipmunk or something... stashed up in there (and rotted?)
You might want to put screens over the ends...

 

[Dutch445]

this is an outlet for some drain tile that runs
about 125' up the property. Last summer I only replaced the
last 25' due to it being crushed and plugged
with tree roots. it runs pretty much all year,although
most of the time it's not running much.
i would say this occured in the past month , maybe 6 weeks,
as during mowing season I am more apt to look at the
pipe during trimming etc.

i'm sure it's coming out of the ground, as I have seen other
areas close by with the same coloration. but odd that
it accumulated at this point to the extend that it filled
that pipe for a ways.
my thoughts is it's an Iron concentration, or some other
form of decomposing organic material..... meow

 

[SPIKER]

by chance it there a septic tank in area?
it does not look like anything I have seen slipping out of a tile in these parts that is for sure...

I have several tiles that were/are attached to OLD clay tiles, the clay tiles had to have some extensions by me when they cracked in areas I had drove the tractor. the water flowing out of them in spring and a day or two after a rain they flow like that one of yours 24-7 3/4 full on flow out of a 4" tile. they drain springs and area land into my creek/wash area with water that is crystal clear. Not sure WHO put in the clay tile but I cut through one with my back hoe which was about 5.5' deep I could see the OLD trench (went across the tile) and could see they trenched it about 14~16" wide. appeared to be HAND dug too...

Only thing I can think of is maybe there is a hunk of steel up there? pipe or maybe a digging bar you forgot/left/dropped? could be laying next to the tile in the trench letting the rusty junk migrate into the tile. did you use a steel pipe hunk to join the new & old tiles maybe?

Mark

 

[tallyho8]

Is that a black plastic garbage bag in the photo? Could a garbage bag full of something have gotten in there and stopped it up?

 

[ToadHill]

I've seen some stuff that looked like that in damp areas in the summer. It was a kind of fungus but I've never seen it clogging up a pipe like that.