Piping a natural spring

Derrick Hughes

Member
Location
Ceredigion
Not sure who told me this could have been @ Hally ,when he first said it I thought he was daft[emoji23] then I went digging , deeper and deeper. Had a shock when I saw the water shooting up from the gravel
 

d-wales

Member
Location
Wales
I've got a big spring on my land, which runs across a few fields and generally makes they a no-go for most of the year in a vehicle.

Been thinking of trying to pipe it to feed a couple of water tanks and then down to a road drain.

What sort of equipment do I need to actually dam the spring?
 

Kevtherev

Member
Location
Welshpool Powys
I've got a big spring on my land, which runs across a few fields and generally makes they a no-go for most of the year in a vehicle.

Been thinking of trying to pipe it to feed a couple of water tanks and then down to a road drain.

What sort of equipment do I need to actually dam the spring?
Pic would help
You may need to put some concrete rings in to intercept your spring then pipe it to troughs etc
Depending on levels of course
 

d-wales

Member
Location
Wales
Pic would help
You may need to put some concrete rings in to intercept your spring then pipe it to troughs etc
Depending on levels of course
I'll get pics next time im in the field.

Its on the side of a hill, with about a 6ft round 'swamp' where its collecting before meandering through some fields.

I was thinking of cutting then back and top of an IBC and burying that just before the spring and filling with stone.

With a 32mm alcathene pipe coming off the IBC, then taking the pipe down to the road and into the ditch.

I could then T-off and put a few water troughs onto it.
 

d-wales

Member
Location
Wales
Pic would help
You may need to put some concrete rings in to intercept your spring then pipe it to troughs etc
Depending on levels of course
Pics
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Phil P

Member
Arable Farmer
Location
North West
We’ve recently been sorting a couple of fields that had some wet spots, the top part of the field has a seem of stone that collects water and flows down until it his a bank of clay. It then crops out and runs down the field making the lower part very wet!
cut some drains through the stone torelease the pressure before it hits the clay. It was like a stream when we first cut through but has calmed down a lot now as the water has somewhere to go.
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We do have one field with a spring in it that never stops running, we cut a drain as deep as we could get fall to the main at the bottom then built a manhole round the spring. Flag on top of the manhole is about two ft deep and buried so won’t hit it with machines. It’s dried it up well but no pics, sorry.
 

d-wales

Member
Location
Wales
Ideal place to put some concrete rings in
Pipe overflow away to ditch or drains below
We’ve done hundreds since the 60s
(I’m 4th generation to be involved with water and land drainage)
So dig out to below spring, put concrete rings in with water fitting on bottom to connect to water trough and take overflow into near by ditch?
 

Warnesworth

Member
BASE UK Member
Location
Chipping Norton
Has anyone got any photos of the concrete ring solution? My father has a spring on one of his fields that seems to be spreading and needs trapping and piping away. Interested to try this. Thanks
 

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