Percolation test.

finbarrk

I'm getting a perculation test done on a site soon, I have the holes dug for a while but I notice that the big hole is constantly almost full of water, well about 75% anyway. Does anyone know would it be better if I had it emptied the day before the engineer does his test or what do they actually do?

muffler

Dont empty it yet. Your engineer should be there no more than 2 - 3 days after the trial hole is dug

finbarrk

Yeah but he wasn't. Should it have a lower level of water than it has now? It is a pretty wet site by the way so it was always going to be dodgy. I just would like to find out would it look better if the water level was lower than it is now on the day the engineer calls, which is next week. thanks.

muffler

You're better off leaving it as it is. The water you see in it represents the water table in the ground and he will need to see this in order to accurately assess the site conditions with a view to recommending a suitable sewerage treatment system.

Have you small holes dug also?

finbarrk

Yeah, small hole dug also. Its just that the big one looks terrible with all the water in it. After the recent rain it doesn't seem to be draining out of it. I suppose thats the level of the water table and maybe there's nothing I can do,only hope for the best.

paulocon

As said, leave it as it is. You're better off get a full and frank evaluation of the site from your engineer. There's no point trying to cheat the system as it's only yourself you'll end up cheating in the long run..

finbarrk

But if I want to get Planning on this site I will cheat the system if I knew the best way to go about it.

smashey

finbarrk wrote:

But if I want to get Planning on this site I will cheat the system if I knew the best way to go about it.

finbarrk, banned for a month for getting advice and chosing to ignore it while stating your intentions to "cheat the system". To me this is flouting the planning laws.

Pm me in a month to remind me to lift the ban.

muffler

If people choose to ignore good advice and then proceed to say that they intend to flaunt the planning laws then they get all they deserve here.

We may not like the planning system and we will all do our best to get through a planning application no matter what part of the country its in but at the end of the day the Planning & Development Acts are contained in the Statutes Book and as such we cant allow people to come here and state that they intend to breach statute law

secman

OP does not seem to realize the importance of the percolation test, its to his benefit also. He does not seem to also realize that if he somehow pumped or otherwise the water from the test hole, that the tester would fill the test hole with a prescribed amount of water and time the fall of the level, the resulting time would then determine the suitabilityof the soil.

He also doesn't seem to realize that it is then permittable to use a raised bed percolation area using imported siutably graded soil.


Secman