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southern MN | In theory, tile runs all year until the water freezes in the soil - then the tile drains out, and remains open until spring, when the ground thaws & releases water, it starts draining right away again.
Generally as soon as channels thaw through the subsiol, it's gonna start draining.
I have a lot of tile 2 to 4 feet deep, and frost to 4 feet is not all that uncommon here in MN.
I have pretty tight yellow clay soil. And lots & lots of seeping wet sidehills, so I understand your drownouts on a hill! Just last month has more tile installed, everyone was saying it's a little dry around here could use rain. They had to breing a small dozer to pull their tracked tile plow up the hill, was slippy when you walked on the hill.
I've heard of work with certain types of tillage, deep, thin shank, with a bullet shape to try to move water through the voids. It worked in some cases, but perhaps depended on the right subsoil, basically you got short seepage from tight soils to a courser subsoil area.....
More tile for me.
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Would drainage tile work in Alberta?
