Big $$$$

centash · Oct 12, 2016

Finally work is underway to upgrade the municipal drain through our other farm. Several neighbour's petitioned the township last year to upgrade it since the existing drain is only 16 inches and cannot handle the flow now that more land upstream has been tile drained. I was getting several blow holes on this farm which is on the lowest end of the drain where it empties into an open ditch, and the grassed waterway was being damaged. The drain being installed is a 30 inch by 4 foot long tile, the largest they can put in with a wheel machine The project involves two drains and about 5 miles of tile, draining over 1000 acres, costing about $700,000.Sure is an impressive line of equipment. Ben

WI Dan · Oct 12, 2016

What's the pipe made of? concrete or something else?

El Toro · Oct 12, 2016

Nice pictures. Hal

blue water massey · Oct 12, 2016

Be happy
At least the cost is not coming out your bank account
looks like they waited till you had the crop off

centash · Oct 12, 2016

Some of it is, but the benefits are worth it. Ben

centash · Oct 12, 2016

Concrete with a fibre filter at the joints. Ben

RBoots · Oct 12, 2016

Couldn't they have just dug the ditch deeper like they do here? Rarely do they ever put in an actual tile main anymore, just ditching for the most part

Bruce from Can. · Oct 12, 2016

Guy in are area has bought up several low wet old pasture farms . Then he wanted the drainage board to improve the drain so he could drain into it . I am more then ten miles away on the farm that drains into the same water shed. I got a bill for $8,000.00 , so he could drain his low wet junk farm . I didn't feel it was worth my investment , and I case you can;t tell for sure , I am still Pi$$ed about the whole thing . I feel the drainage act is out dated , and sticks large bills on people that are not directly going to benefit from the drain . Bruce

centash · Oct 12, 2016

What you see is the very end of the closed drain. To the right, it is an open ditch/Creek. To go deeper would require resigning of the whole drain, all the way to the lake. What happened is the old drain installed in 1963 was of adequate size for the requirements then....drainage of 2 inches of rainfall, in 48 hours. Since then almost all of the land upstream has changed from non drained pasture land to crop land drained every 4 rods or less. These extra drains exceeded the carrying capacity of the old 16 inch, resulting in slow drainage upstream, blow holes downstream, on my farm especially, and damage to the grassed waterways due to increased surface water. The new tile is sized to accommodate 2 inches of rain in 24 hours or less, with capacity for even more drains upstream, and diverting surface water into it via a series of catch basins. Well worth it from a soil conservation point of view. Ben

centash · Oct 12, 2016

That's how the neighbour feels too. If you look to the far right of the picture, you will see his recreational property, 100 acres of reforestation land. Part of the other drain will go through it, and he receives zero benefit and since it is not zoned agricultural land, he does not qualify for the 50 percent grant available to farmers. Made for some interesting drainage meetings! Ben

Traditional Farmer · Oct 12, 2016

Just learned another reason I don't want to be a flatlander.

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