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How To Get Rid Of Standing Water In Your Yard
By Michael J. McGroarty, Fri Dec 9th
You are welcome to use this article on your website or in yournewsletter as long as you reprint it as is, including thecontact information at the end. Website URLs must be activelinks. You are welcome to use this article with an affiliatelink, http://www.freeplants.com/resellers.htm Do you have one or more areas in your yard that hold water aftera rainfall? This is a common problem, and sometimes difficult tosolve. Over the years I’ve talked with dozens of people tryingto battle this problem, and on several occasions I have beenhired to solve the problem. So what can be done? Too oftenpeople come to me asking what kind of a tree, or what kind ofshrubs can be planted in a wet area to dry it up. This is thewrong approach. Most plants, and I mean almost all plants arenot going to survive in an area where the soil is soggy forextended periods of time. The roots need to breath, and plantinga tree or shrub in a water area will kill it. Another commonapproach is to try and fill the area with topsoil. Depending ona variety of variables, this can work, but many times addingadditional soil to a wet area will only shift the water toanother area just a few feet away. If you are lucky enough tohave some natural fall to your property, or a drainage ditchnearby, this problem is easy enough to solve. If you happen tolive in an area that was developed over the past few years,there might even be a system to remove storm water nearby. Inmany new home developments I’ve seen stormwater catch basinsalready installed in backyards. Trust me, this is a good thing.There is nothing worse than having a soggy yard all the time. If you are fortunate to have some fall to your yard, or astormwater system that you can drain water into, this problem iseasy to solve. Make sure you check with your local officialsbefore you do anything at all with a storm drain. All you have to do is go to your local building supply centerand buy some 4” perforated plastic drain pipe. The best kind forthis purpose is the flexible kind that comes in 100’ rolls. Thistype of drain pipe has small slits all around the pipe. Theseslits allow water to enter the pipe so it can be carried away. Just dig a trench from the center of the low area you are tryingto drain, to the point that you intend to drain it to. Using asimple line level you can set up a string over top of the trenchto make sure that your pipe runs downhill all the way. A linelevel is a very small level that is designed to attach to astring. Any hardware stores sells
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them for just a couple ofdollars. Set the string up so it is level, then measure from thestring to the bottom of your trench to make sure you haveconstant fall. You should have 6” fall for every 100’ of pipe. The highest point is going to be the area that you are trying todrain, so you only want your pipe deep enough at this point soit can be covered with soil. Once the trench is dug just lay thepipe in. At the highest end of the pipe you’ll need to insert astrainer into the end of the pipe to keep soil from entering thepipe. Cover the pipe with some washed stone, and then backfillthe trench with soil. The washed stone creates a void around thepipe so that the water can find its way into the pipe.
Washed stone is usually inexpensive stone that has been washedso it is clean and free of mud. The only part of the pipe thatneeds to be exposed is the low end, where the water exits thepipe. Do not put a strainer in that end. If you do not haveanywhere that you can drain the water to, you still might beable to do something. But first consider what is happening, andwhy the water is standing where it is. Even if you have welldrained soil, water cannot soak in fast enough during periods ofheavy rain, and it runs across the top of the ground andeventually finds the lowest point, and either leaves theproperty, or gets trapped. If you have well drained soil, thetrapped water usually soaks in. If you have heavy clay soil, thewater lays there, and the soil underneath becomes verycompacted, and the problem compounds itself. The more water thatstands, the worse the drainage gets. What I have done in areaslike this, where there is standing water, but nowhere to drainit to, is to install a French drain system that actually carriesthe water away from the low area, and allows it to seep into theground over a larger distance, where the soil is not quite socompacted. To install this French drain system you do everythingexactly as explained above, except instead of draining the waterto a lower area, you can send it in any direction you like. Evenin the direction from which it came, which is uphill. Wheninstalling this type of system, it’s a good idea to dig a numberof shorter trenches, all heading away from the area where thewater stands. Using the line level, make sure your trenches fallaway from their point of origin so once the water enters thepipes it will flow away from the wet spot. What is going tohappen is that during times of heavy rain the low area is stillgoing to trap water, but much of that water is going to seepinto the drain pipes and eventually leach into the soil undereach trench. Because this soil has not been compacted by thestanding water and the baking sun, it will accept the water. Itwon’t happen nearly as fast as if you could just drain the waterto a ditch, but at least you will have a mechanism in place thatwill eventually disperse the water back into the soil. It’s alot easier to leach 200 gallons of water into a series oftrenches that total 100 lineal feet, than it is to expect thatwater to leach into a 10’ by 10’ area that is hard and compact. Michael J. McGroarty is the author of this article. Visit hismost interesting website, http://www.freeplants.com and sign upfor his excellent gardening newsletter. Article provided by,http://gardening-articles.com
About the author:Michael J. McGroarty has more than 30 years experience in thelandscape gardening/nursery industry. He's spent the better partof his life on his hands and knees in the dirt working withplants and his hands-on experience allows Mike to write in amanner than many gardeners find to be helpful and beneficial. |