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| If you had issues with salts you would actually be saving water by installing tile on 2 fronts. the first reason is you wouldn't have to use irrigation water to try and push the salts deeper out of the root system the drains would continually remove those minerals. The other reason why you would be using less irrigation water is the higher the PH of the soil the less that water is useable by the plants consequently requiring more irrigation to get production.
I think the water table is much higher than many of the posters east of the Rockies realize. If you had a salt issue many times there is a pearched water table only a few feet below the surface so you can't exactly flush the salts out.
Yes where you put that drain water has been a continuos issue for the last 40 years. Some areas this water has been added to salt flats and this has been going on for over a century.
Other areas drains have been plugged or removed. The issues have not just been Sodium Cloride but boron or selenium. If you look at what other drainage districts have gone through the last 40 years I see the same groups moving to other areas of the US looking at other water quality issues.
As much as people complain about this drainage water last year this water and sewage outfall was one districts only source of water and the state water board has taken this small district to court for using their drainage water for irrigation.
Edited by Now_What 2/14/2016 14:14
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Tile in new Mexico
