[TheForge] OT: Spring tile question

[Jay Hayes]

Andy,

I'm in WV too and have developed several springs over the years. Now 
days they use perforated plastic pipe instead of clay tiles. If you 
think of developing a spring as the reverse of a septic drainage field, 
you'll have a good start at it. The perforated plastic pipe is placed in 
an excavated trench right at and below the mouth of the natural spring. 
The trench is partially filled with washed gravel before the pipe is 
placed in it. You can get the pipe with a fabric attached to the outside 
to keep out sediment or just wrap landscape fabric around it.  Than back 
fill with more washed gravel to cover the pipe. Place another layer of 
landscape fabric on top of the gravel and finish the back fill with dirt 
to keep out ground water.

The perforated pipe from the spring usually feeds into a small spring 
box or catch basin with a man manhole on top. This is to clean out any 
sediment if it gets blocked up. From there a smaller plastic pipe will 
gravitate the water down hill to a larger cistern, or pump water up hill 
depending on the lay of the land. The spring box can be laid up from 
concrete block or rock if the location is to remote to get a plastic 
tank hauled in. I've even used a section of 18" plastic culvert pipe 
stood on end to make the the spring box.

The WV Extension Office or USDA should have some pamphlets on spring 
development. Your library might have a book called "The Home Water 
Supply" by Stu Campbell. It is a good reference. The county health 
department may also have some info. I had them test mine to make sure 
they were safe to drink...

Jay

On 3/31/2012 11:48 PM, Andrew Vida wrote:
> Folks,
>
> I have been trying to find information on how to develop springs and am
> having a pretty hard time of it.  Here is WV they call the device for
> capturing the water a tile.  Searching the net for "spring tile" returns
> about fifty trillion pages of all sorts of things wholly unrelated to
> springs.
>
> Do any of you know anything about developing springs or of sites that
> discuss this?
>
> Thanks in advance.
>
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