Slurry storage

[Farmersdaughter85]

Hi, looking for advice.
Our slurry pit was cleaned out last year and they hit a natural spring. Unfortunately, we’re getting about 1000 gallons of water entering the pit which is unmanageable and we just don’t have capacity to hold never ending supplies of water.
Has anyone had a similar issue? I wondered about lining the pit but was concerned about the membrane bubbling or breaking under the pressure if (more like when) there was water build up. Can anyone recommend specialist companies who can help? Based in Cornwall

 

[frederick]

Hi, looking for advice.
Our slurry pit was cleaned out last year and they hit a natural spring. Unfortunately, we’re getting about 1000 gallons of water entering the pit which is unmanageable and we just don’t have capacity to hold never ending supplies of water.
Has anyone had a similar issue? I wondered about lining the pit but was concerned about the membrane bubbling or breaking under the pressure if (more like when) there was water build up. Can anyone recommend specialist companies who can help? Based in Cornwall

Lining definitely won't work.
Only option is to drain the spring out of the lagoon and concrete the floor. Still very risky or start again.

 

[lazy farmer]

Pipe the spring before it reaches the slurry pit.

 

[Beef farmer]

Get Bob Watson involved.
He will tell you how to sort this

 

[Cowski]

We have the same issue with an earth banked silage clamp dug into a hill. Does anyone have a solution (please don’t say flexicoil along the wall) short of digging out the whole bank and putting false wall in?

 

[vantage]

Get Bob Watson involved.
He will tell you how to sort this

Who’s Bob Watson?

 

[Slippery Slope]

Who’s Bob Watson?

He’s the south west’s answer to the ‘A Team’ in a slurry pit situation

 

[puppet]

We have the same issue with an earth banked silage clamp dug into a hill. Does anyone have a solution (please don’t say flexicoil along the wall) short of digging out the whole bank and putting false wall in?

You need a wall round the base with a pipe behind it to take all that water away

 

[Beef farmer]

Who’s Bob Watson?

He is an earth banked lagoon specialist.
Advises the EA
Well respected by the EA
If he says it goes, it will go.
Spade is a spade
Fixed fee.
Done 3 for us, wouldn't use anyone else.

 

[vantage]

He is an earth banked lagoon specialist.
Advises the EA
Well respected by the EA
If he says it goes, it will go.
Spade is a spade
Fixed fee.
Done 3 for us, wouldn't use anyone else.

Just looked him up
Our equivalent is Keith Owen