Posted: Sat Oct 13, 2007 4:43 pm
We can have 50mm per hour during storms (Lancashire Pennines). We are equipped to deal with clean water via field drains and water culverts but sometimes they flood and run into gardens, grates, manholes etc. My neighbour has an old stone culvert under his cellar floor and it is bubbling upwards. Some of the field drains are so old they have been broken and blocked. Okay, this is what you get in the pennines, but the environment agency says there must be no risk of this water mixing with effluent and stable yard pollution. The new stables will have a water supply laid to it from a new house in the next field, and this will be used to swill the yard and stables. We had 261mm in January, on the 20th January we had 50mm in one hour. We have had 1203mm so far this year. I think you are right to say that some water will soak in the hill. No-one round here ever puts farms etc. behind houses. We have "linear form" that is, steep valleys and ribbon like developments. The fields are at least 20% gradient and some are more. The appeal inspector approved the application PROVIDED that drainage works were put in and prroved by our planning dept. I was speaking to them on Friday and he suddenly admitted he didn't know about "controlled waste" from stable yards. He thought it only applied to the manure midden which has a separate 600litre tank. He is panicking now as he only thought he had to ask for drains to the roof runoff.
thanks for taking an interest, LLL I hope you are finding this interesting!
Mrs Noah (moving to dry and sunny Bedfordshire)
thanks for taking an interest, LLL I hope you are finding this interesting!
Mrs Noah (moving to dry and sunny Bedfordshire)
