Big prob

[crick]

i have bourght a house and land with several static caravans to the rear of the house

when I brought it I knew that there was a problem with flooding (as the neighbours have built up there land a lot (around 4ft)

but I did not realise that the water tables where so high (around 1 ft below the house ) and land to the rear of the house it is below water

1 prob was that the ses tank for the house was filling when the ground water was going in to an inspection chamber

also I think it was cracked so

I have now laid around 1 to 2 ft of hardcore over the land (that has stoped the land flodding )

And I was going to run a land drain along the back of the house (not done yet )
I have put some surface drains in as well

I have laid new pipes and was going to connect to an onion tank I brought and try put in a soke away

I dug about a 10ft hole and it just keeps filling with water (the water table )

I think my only optune is

put in a treatment plant and ask the counsel to dig up the road as there is a storm drain there

any advice do you think thay will have a problem with me connecting to that with a treatment plant

or is the another way

the warter table is about 3ft down in some places were i built up the land but i was worred about dumping more water on the land what do you think

[Tony McC]

How does a soakaway alleviate flooding? I've been asking for years, and although lots of people have, or claimed to have, dug soakaways to resolve their waterlogging problems, no-one has been able to explain how this is supposed to work. Of course, I usually get to hear about these wondrous schemes when they don't work, which is currently running close to 100% of the time (there have been one or two people that have claimed a soakaway solved their problem: they are now working on getting water to run uphill, I believe!)

Anyway, back to crick and the flooded caravan park: call in a drainage specialist. With site of this scale, there's no way you'll find the answer on an internet forum. You need specialist onsite advice.

[bobhughes]

If you pray hard enough, you can make water run uphill. How hard? Why, hard enough to make water run uphill, of course! [Robert A. Heinlein, Expanded Universe]