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Re: Digging a level trench with a backhoe
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Posted by Tim, Ohio on January 09, 2007 at 12:21:32 from (128.146.239.246):
In Reply to: Digging a level trench with a backhoe posted by Terry Edwards on January 09, 2007 at 09:31:05:
Not sure if you know what you are doing or not, but we did a leach field recently. The design we used was a continuous trench that went about 40 feet before it was u-turned and came back along the ditch that had been just dug. When we came back to the the beginning end of the first ditch with the second it was u-turned again. This was repeated until the combined length equaled what was required for the size of the household. Each successive ditch was a little lower than the previous one. At the end of each ditch in the u-turn bend a mound was left about a foot high in the ditch. So, as the water from the septic tank entered the first ditch it would fill up until it reached the top of the mound at the first u-turn. This slowed the water so it would have time to leach into the ground. As the level in the first ditch rises it eventually overcomes the hump at the first u-turn, then slowly overflows into the next ditch. The second ditch is lower than the first and so on. All ditches were filled with 1" or larger river rock (round agregate) with black flex tile having holes, not slits in the tile. The top of the gravel was covered with landscape fabric and then backfilled with dirt to grade. Tim, Ohio
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