Finding a soakaway

Bert Coules · 2014-06-28T12:36:27+00:00

Somewhere under my back garden there's a soakaway pit, fed from a gutter downpipe. I'd like to run a second feed to it from guttering newly fitted to my garage, but I have to find it first. The garden is undeveloped, just poor quality grass over a barely-leveled area of ground, so can be dug up with no problems - but is there a method for locating the soakaway? In the very centre of what passes for the lawn is a roughly square patch of concrete some 12" x 12" with what looks like the base socket for a circular dryer at its centre. I suppose there's a possibility that this was done when the soakaway was installed, so perhaps that's a reasonable place to start looking. Or perhaps I should wait for rain and employ a water-diviner...

Finding a soakaway

Jun 28, 2014 44 Replies

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Bert Coules 12 years ago

Possibly, though not in the (admittedly short and upward-facing) length that I've so far unearthed.

I have to leave the job now for about a week. With luck, by the time I get back to it there might have been some rain to make the ground a bit softer.

Bert

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Mark 12 years ago

FWIW some soakaways here installed in the 2000's are now clogged up (And no I didn't install them).

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JimK 12 years ago

How deep did you dig?

Jim K

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Bert Coules 12 years ago

Fifteen, maybe eighteen inches. Not enough?

Bert

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JimK 12 years ago

Dunno but if it's on a 1 in 80 say then you could calc what depth at what distance? & check other calcs for various inclinations.

Jim K

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