So I seem to have to do something about a spring that's appeared. The garden's got a bit of a slope to it, with fields next to it, and a semi- derelict area directly above. There's been a couple of large and old trees down over the winter, which probably used to slurp a lot of the excess water up.
That bit of the garden's always been a bit boggy, I'm told, but has never done anything like this in the last seven years.
The lawn's squelchy, the flowerbed's boggy, and the paving slab path is awash. A temporary measure's seen a hosepipe lain next to the path, with the worst rivulet running straight into it, and off into the handy drain outside the kitchen. Without that, it was running down into next door's garden (about a metre and a half lower level) and flooding their garage. There's still plenty missing the hose, but what's going through is probably a litre or so a minute.
The water company have investigated, and there's no pipes that could possibly be responsible for the leak. It can really only be groundwater.
So... Suggestions?
I'm thinking in terms of pulling the slabs up, digging out, and laying something to pull the water towards the drain - about 6-7m away, and mebbe half a metre (at most) lower.
But what?
Shallow trench, perforated plastic pipe at the bottom, surrounded by gravel, with the slabs relaid back on top? Would that be adequate?