How to stop springs from keeping the whole ground wet

ltec

Trying to fix a couple of fields that has been too wet for grazing. I think it is springs rising and is keeping most the field wet. When the field is at its driest there is a few patches where it's really spongy and floaty and it's wet from there all the way down hill.
Can I pipe these to the sheugh and how do I go about it. If a dig a metre cube out of the ground and fill it with draining stones and put a pipe till it will it drain away, and should it be a perferatted pipe or not?

tancoman

I am also interested in a solution where there are a good few springs in a field. I would have no problem with a fall to a big drain that runs along the side of the field.

_Brian

Yea,
We had a lad in few years ago and he dug out a pit where the sprint was at its worst, filled with stone and piped iit to drain, used perforated pipe and stoned to drain - why not..

ltec

I thought maybe perferatted pipe would block up because the ground is now that mossy, I'll maybe try opening a drain up first to see if it works and then decide what to do

studdlymurphy

If not a long run then why not use both perforated and normal pipe side by side. Best of both worlds. The perforated would help with drainage along the way also I guess.

I said

Dig trench to open drain if ya have one in the field already,fill the bottom with drainage stone place perforated pipe and fill over with drainage stone.
Job oxo did four acres here last spring had one main channel and four either side of it like fish bones that ran into open drain using that method.
Drove over it middle of march spreading fert hardly left a mark.

mikefoxo

How about that Connacht Agri pipe? Have a spring at the top of a field here and it's what I'm considering using. It says on their website it's best suited to where there's a constant flow of water

tancoman

I was thinking along the lines of "I Said" at #6 above. Dig a trench to main drain, drainage stone and perforated pipe, then fill up within a few inches of top with more stone. Then run more trenches to this trench with a herringbone effect. What do ye think? I was also thinking of 4" perforated pipe and 20mm round drainage stone. Would 4" pipe be sufficient?

skoger

If you dig down and find where it's bubbling up and put a piece of pipe vertically up to the height of the drain going to the shough then you're not relying on the water filtering up through the gravel

mikefoxo

When people say "perforated pipe" do they mean the ordinary yellow stuff, or the black stuff in 3m lengths, that's smooth on the inside?

tanko

I'd say they mean the yellow pipe with the holes in it.

tancoman

I meant the yellow pipe with the slots cut in it.