Lake Lowell Rd

onefarmer · Apr 12, 2013

Here is a pic of the field across the road from me. I have always called it Lake Lowell Rd. It floods whenever we get 2in or more. And it has rained for almost four days now. There is a 12in tile under there with a surface drain. That tile comes to the road to a catch basin then under the road into my south field. Last year the county drain commission added a 15in tile in addition to the 12in going across my field to the creek. It will take about two to three days for this to drain off. If it doesn't rain again. There is a house just outside the left frame of the pictures that has had the basement flooded a few times.

Sorry the date was off on my camera. They were took today 4-12-13 not 2002.

paul · Apr 12, 2013

Looks like most of my farm will, once the snow melts.

It all puddles up like that in spring. Or if we get over 3 inch rain.

We have a spot just like that, dad put an 8 inch tile into it in the 1950s. Then neighbors tiesd onto the tile, so he ran a 10 inch tile to the low spot in the mid 1970s.

Neighbors tied on more tile to the 8 inch upstream, to the point water came down to our low spot, came up to the surface out of the intake, and went down the intake of the 10 inch.

Year and a half ago neighbor wanted to do more tiling, so we put in a 15 inch through my low spot, and continued on a 12 inch to his fields.

So within about 100 feet in the low, I have a 8, 10 and 15 inch tile all more or less parrallel trying to get water to move on.

All private tile.

The open ditch in my farm is a county tile, dug in the 1950s.

--->Paul

onefarmer · Apr 12, 2013

I hope the neighbors helped with YOUR upgrades due to THEIR hooking on.

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