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WCIL | I have a situation that has developed over a few years and had a few questions on it.
Back in the 50s or 60s a neighbor filled in a ditch and layed a 12 inch clay tile in it and put a concrete structure on the end of it where the tile drains out. It was done with cost share money back then and it worked well for what it was designed to do.
Flash forward to today and the tile is breaking apart, there has been a pond put above it back in the early 70s which has a large watershed and into that pond in the last 12 years there has been alot of extra tiles drained into it.
We have owned the land where the pond is since it was built. Our neighbor owned all the land below the pond which includes about 1400 ft. of the 12 inch tile until the last 700 ft. came up for auction and we bought it over 20 years ago. For ten years I fought the 12 inch tile fixing the blowouts until I had enough and installed a new plastic tile on our portion which was okay by NRCS because it was a wetland. Problem solved right? WRONG! The neighbor that farms the ground between the pond and the last 700ft. will not fix the blowouts so most of the time there is water running over my ground which is a cow pasture and you know where cows like to stand on a hot summer's day, in the running water so now there is a huge ditch on my side.
In my best guess with all the extra water that is going thru the ditch and tile I think we need to double the tile so here is my question. Has anyone ever layed two tiles in the same trench ie. one on top of the other. I am guessing the bottom one would have to be bedded with gravel before the top one is put in. IT would save another trench and the biggest tile that will go thru my boot is ten inch. Maybe just a hair brained idea but just throwing out. TIA | |
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Tile Question
