Timeline for Would a vernal pond (as either a retention basin or a infiltration basin) be a viable solution for this drainage issue?
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| Apr 7, 2020 at 20:02 | comment | added | Eliot G York | @Ack the gradient slopes towards the garage from midway across a 4 acre field and the pooling is at the lowest point for my yard, the field and my neighbor’s yard. There is a drainage trench but it would require at least 30 yards to move the water to it. I want to put the pound in the area that is depicted as flooded (though built out away from the building). The brick thing is the unused dug well. Does that provide a little more insight? | |
| Apr 7, 2020 at 17:32 | comment | added | Ack | @PV22 while it is true a pond would hold more water, consider then there would also be more water to hold, therefore the result is the same: the water is at that level not because that is all the water, but because that is all the water that depression will hold, the rest has overflowed and run down hill and away from the area. That would happen with or without the pond. This is the why for my answers, we are in effect lowering the top of the 'overflow' therefore lowering the top of the water level | |
| Apr 7, 2020 at 15:05 | comment | added | Eliot G York | Don’t Farmers use this method for agriculture irrigation and stock watering holes? | |
| Apr 7, 2020 at 15:02 | comment | added | Eliot G York | Surely and empty space can hold more water than the same space filled with dirt, no? As in I can put more water in an empty glass than a glass packed with dirt. Understand the concept that the water level is even and marks the ground water surface, but with more room I’m hoping to move the ground water to one dug out area. | |
| Apr 6, 2020 at 22:07 | comment | added | HoneyDo | French drain is where I was going to go. Only issue other than land ownership is you will probably have to cut through higher ground to get the flow down the slope. A drainage pipe as Ack suggests might be the best option. +1 | |
| Apr 6, 2020 at 21:44 | comment | added | Ed Beal | Filling a ditch with pipe and rock is a French drain and would be a good solution if they own to the down hill slope. | |
| Apr 6, 2020 at 21:40 | history | answered | Ack | CC BY-SA 4.0 |