This is required to hold the pipe steady.
Drain field installation.
Place in most jurisdictions inch and a half washed drain rock from a nearby gravel pit around the pipe.
Step 1 choose your site.
Drain field replacement can cost anywhere from 2 000 to 10 000.
See your local health requirements for the size of embedment needed and the size of gravel.
The perforated pipe in a gravity drain field has no slope end to end and has capped ends.
Where the tube passes by the downspout from the gutter we installed a y fitting and drained the roof water from the gutter system directly into the main drainage line.
This can be accomplished by making four trenches 25 feet long or two trenches 50 feet long.
Each drain field trench should be at least 3 to 4 feet wide and 3 to 4 feet deep.
The drain or leach field is the section of the septic system that transports the waste water back to the soil.
The first sign of a problem with drain field is often a swampy area in the yard or an odor of sewage on the property.
Screw a drain cover over the end of the tubing as it approaches daylight to keep critters out.
The field should be at least 10 feet away from your edible garden and any water such as a lake river or well.
There should be at least 100 feet of drain field for a 1 000 gallon septic tank.