Field Drainage boiling up

limo_100 · 01-05-2024 07:54AM #1

Hi have noticed that some of my fields that are have a drainage system in place are boiling up and when I checked the ends of the pipes there is no water coming out of the land drainage shores. Any seem this before would the land be just sealed and need to be mole drained or is my drainage system need to be redone? was only drained in the last 20years. Would be heavy land but when the weather dries it would dry out fast but when putting out the fertilizer it hadn't dried like the rest of the land. Still too wet to even roll it to level it out

this is not a great picture but the water is lying in areas that I know there is drainage pipes. This is in my silage ground so its very frustrating.

Anyone seen something similar?

Katie 2018 · 01-05-2024 09:09AM

Same issue myself this year.on heavy ground.got very hard not to mark the ground when travelling over a large drain in silage ground.is it just a case so much rain has fallen an it taking long time to soak

limo_100 · 01-05-2024 09:52AM

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122084509#Comment_122084509

It probably is a factor but I would this was happening for me the last few years just its very bad this year and I think I would like to get it sorted or at least get a path forward

Wildsurfer · 01-05-2024 12:29PM

You'll never be finished tending to wet ground. I'll be draining some ground for the third time this year.

Jb1989 · 01-05-2024 05:03PM

Same here with some shores and moledrains done last summer, they very wet. Maybe land has sealed itself.

mr.stonewall · 02-05-2024 07:38AM

Mole plough when they weather is better could be a simple option

limo_100 · 02-05-2024 11:37AM

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122088328#Comment_122088328

yeah that's what I was thinking when the silage is taken off it If the shores started running again it would probably be a benefit to also plough it and loosen up the soil?

RockOrBog · 02-05-2024 11:43AM

Is it hilly land , maybe there are springs in it. I drained 8 acres in 2021 and it turned out well except for one corner where there was a well that was filled in, there are springs there and it's still wet.

Ill have another go at it in June

older by the day · 02-05-2024 12:15PM

I always check the mouths of the drain first, and bring 3/4 inch black water pipe and give it a good Roding. Those yellow plastic pipes get blocked with roots In black ground. Most you would free, the odd one might need investigating. It usually where there's a V or a joiner, or where some lad was short a V or a joiner

Good loser · 02-05-2024 09:16PM

Those rushes are from last year or the year before so the problem is not new. Has been exceptionally wet this year so not surprising it's taking longer to dry out.

Keep a close eye on it and it would be worth sticking a 3/4" alkathene pipe up the outlets to rod them though I doubt that would fix the matter. In some parts of the country (not here) the drains can be scoured out by propelling a nozzle with hose attached mechanically up the drains - presumably as far as the first junction. 80 mm pipes should be easier to make headway on than 50/60 mm. Worth consideration?

roosterman71 · 03-05-2024 08:16PM

I'd the same a couple of years back. Ground very wet in a section with water bubbling up. Got a digger in and the drains underneath were blocked. Fixed that and all working since. However, area absolutely covered in rushes since

limo_100 · 04-05-2024 07:26AM

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122095350#Comment_122095350

What had the pipes blocked? there's no roots near any of my pipes was it just silt? probably better using 4inch pipe for drains anymore with a bed of stone under the pipe first

Thegingerbear · 07-05-2024 08:21PM

Have you spread slurry in that field? If so, then the drains are probably blocked. If you lay land drains they need to be wrapped in terram or some type of geotextile material and that will allow the water through but not any fine grained materials (soil/slurry etc) and that should ensure no blockages. Also use 150mm diameter pipes and if possible fit access points every 80m in case there are blockages at a later date. These measures are costly but long term it's worth it.

roosterman71 · 07-05-2024 09:29PM

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122096118#Comment_122096118

Dirt and shite. No roots near it. Was out well into the field. When it was relieved there was a lot of orange water came out. I'm told that's iron

Hard Knocks · 07-05-2024 09:41PM

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122110025#Comment_122110025

Probably need to use sand stone, as limestone reacts with iron

funkey_monkey · 13-10-2025 12:05PM

Lads I've got a field that has a road draining off into it. There is a sheugh parallel to the road behind the fence where it goes into. Wouldn't be much or any of a flow in it and probably needs to be cleaned out.

Where the road water drains into the field there is an open sheugh that collects this water and brings it down the field to where it enters a covered drain of some type - it's bought ground so can't tell yet if it is piped or a stone drain down to the river. The water pools where the sheugh meets this covered drain. What I'd like to do is to cover the sheugh and pipe it fully down to the river.

My question is what is the best way to get the road water into a pipe with minimal silt or any other material that would block it. In an ideal world Road Service would install a gully with silt trap and give me the the piped outlet from it. However, I don't think they'd have the will to do this and would probably just cut a trench in the verge to run it into my land and alleviate the surface flooding during heavy rain.

As a minimum I'll have to clean out the sheugh and create some type of sump where it meets the closed drain.

Any thoughts?

older by the day · 13-10-2025 12:37PM

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123901703#Comment_123901703

Go away and find the pipe taking it from the field to the river first, because if it's too small or half blocked, you should start your job there.

You could always sink a barrel in where the road water is coming and clean in out the odd time. But if you use a big enough quarry pipe, gravel and silt should run along, if you leave enough fall.

funkey_monkey · 13-10-2025 01:12PM

That pipe will be sorted one way or another as part of the overall job.

I'm just looking for ways folk have got water from ditches into dragon periods without clicking them with silt.

Its relatively flat ground so there wouldn't be a great fall in it.

Field Drainage boiling up

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