southern MN | Flyindownabackroad - 4/2/2024 13:30
If you have a vertical inlet in your yard that is boiling up water during heavy rain events I would wait until it dries up and dig it up and remove the inlet. We've done that with one or two inlets in our fields that were pumping water out during big rain events. Maybe the water pumping out of the inlet isn't backfeeding from the creek but it's just coming from upstream tile because it's easier for the water to escape there than into the creek when the creek is full.
Now if that is the case I would be careful. Often if there is no inlet (being used as an outlet as excess water bubbles out at times) it usually leads to a blowout here in my conditions, as the water pressure eats up to the surface and blows the dirt open. Then when the water recedes the pond washes loose dirt away and through the tile. Just a mess.
Tile doesn’t really handle being pressurized very much.
Paul |
Backflowing Tile
