What is the ground like around the hole? Can I presume you will be forming up cement around the walls of the well or laying cement block? If you can slope the ground a little away from the lip of the well and if it is that bit higher then I am pretty sure water will move away from the hole and the ground around it. That should keep it from saturating and the only water you will have to deal with will be what falls directly into the hole. that isn't a lot. Dig your hole a foot and a half deeper than you need then fill the extra with crushed rock, pack it a little and lay some landscape fabric and an inch or so of fine sand over that before pouring the floor. Just poke a hole through the cement pan for water to drain into the drainage rock below. The area around your well will need to be collecting water for it to saturate. If this is not happening then the drainage reservoir should drain just fine.
One hint will be, just how sticky is the mud you are presently digging out? Pay particular attention as you go deeper. If it is wet or gooey then you may have a problem. ----- Original Message ----- From: Dan Rossi To: [email protected] Sent: Monday, June 29, 2009 4:50 PM Subject: Re: [BlindHandyMan] Hydrology Thanks for the suggestions Dale. I am not exactly certain of what I will do just yet. I remember hearing about those tunneling devices. I wonder what it takes to get someone to use one, or if you can rent them. I assume they aren't the kind of thing they just rent out to anyone. -- Blue skies. Dan Rossi Carnegie Mellon University. E-Mail: [email protected] Tel: (412) 268-9081 [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
