Building a soakaway

[Lawrence Zarb]

Can anyone tell me why I cann take an old green plastic waterbutt, perforate it, and bury it into the ground, and use it as a soakaway?

[dom]

If it's well away from any building and the holes don't become clogged, it should be ok. I've seen some standard tables somewhere for calculating soakaway sizes based on roof area.

[Rick]

Because it does not cover enough ground area to deal with the water, thus making you a soggy patch. You need to match the ammount of water to the soil type, to the land area required for the soakaway.

Rick

[Andrew Gabriel]

I would imagine it will collapse.

[Mark]

lacking information such as, likely amount of water to be removed, soil type. See

[The Natural Philosopher]

Then fill it with rubble and shingle.