Our house was built about 1870, previous owner had done away with surface water soakaways! I decided to dig 2 new ones but found the ground water only 2' below the garden level. I have left the hole open for 3 weeks and it is not subsiding or rising. First is this normal, secondly if so can I still have a working soakaway?
Thanks for any advice
High Water Table?
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Firstly, it must be normal for your part of the world. The level of a water table varries from place to place - there is no nationally agreed level: it's completely beyond our control. We can put men on the moon and probe the darkest secrets of the smallest sub-atomic particles, but we can't get the water table to do as we'd like!
So, that brings us to the second point - with such a relatively shallw water table, it's highly unlikely that a soakaway will be any use at all. :(
So, that brings us to the second point - with such a relatively shallw water table, it's highly unlikely that a soakaway will be any use at all. :(