Draining for Profit, and Draining for HealthWaring, George E. (George Edwin)
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Draining for Profit, and Draining for Health
Waring, George E. (George Edwin)
Drain-tiles; Drainage
4. Where springs exist, there should be some provision made for collecting
their water in pits filled with loose stone, gravel, brush or other
rubbish, or furnished with several lengths of tile set on end, one above
the other, or with a barrel or other vessel; and a line of tile of proper
size should be run directly to a main, or sub-main drain. The manner of
doing this by means of a pit filled with stone is shown in Fig. 10. The
collection of spring water in a vertical tile basin is shown in Fig. 11.
[Illustration: Fig. 11 - STONE AND TILE BASIN FOR SPRING WITH DRAIN.]
Fig. 11 - STONE AND TILE BASIN FOR SPRING WITH DRAIN.
5. Where a ledge of shelving rock, of considerable size, occurs on land to
be drained, it is best to make some provision for collecting, at its base,
the water flowing over its surface, and taking it at once into the drains,
so that it may not make the land near it unduly wet. To effect this, a
ditch should be dug along the base of the rock, and _quite down to it_,
considerably deeper than the level of the proposed drainage; and this
should be filled with small stones to that level, with a line of tile laid
on top of the stones, a uniform bottom for the tile to rest upon being
formed of cheap strips of board. The tile and stone should then be covered
with inverted sods, with wood shavings, or with other suitable material,
which will prevent the entrance of earth, (from the covering of the
drain,) to choke them. The water, following down the surface of the rock,
will rise through the stone work and, entering the tile, will flow off.
This method may be used for springy hill sides.
6. The points previously considered relate only to the collection of
unusual quantities of water, (from springs and from rock surfaces,) and to
the removal from the land of what is thus collected, and of that which
flows from the minor or lateral drains.
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