Tuesday, 20th September 2011 / 07:20
At long last, after a break of nearly a year, William and his band of men, Ben, Orien and Neil are back. It’s an uplifting sight to see a digger, albeit a Korean one, with it’s bucket dipping down into the soil. Yesterday they started digging the trench which will take the rain water drainage pipe down to the ditch. There’s no point having a soak away here as the water table is high; makes much more sense to pipe it straight into the ditch. The water will flow into Bartley Water and will eventually pass the ends of the gardens of my friends who live in Rushington before flowing into the end of Southampton Water at Eling.
There’s just about enough fall from the new pipes on the extension to the ditch. It only needs to be 1:100. The trench is about 550 mm deep at the ditch end.