In my yard, there is an area that is always wet. I dug a hole near this spot, it filled up with water quick.?
Question:What is it? Is it wetlands? Is it a spring?
Also, there is a spot in my neighbors yar where water appears to be coming from the ground, then disappears a few feet away under some leaves/dirt. Is that a spring? Can we somehow tap into that to irrigate our lawn?
Answers:
This might be a dumb question, but do you have a septic tank or are you on sewer? If it's the septic tank, you may want to have it looked at!
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could be. it could also be the place where a creek used to run thru before they built the houses. irrigate lawn? sure. dig a big enough hole to accumulate water and put a pump in hole. good luck.
has your water bill increased? if so you may want to have someone look at it. it could be a leak. even if your bill has not increased you may still want to have the city come look at it.
There may be a broken water or sprinkler pipe. That will saturate all the soil around it. What does your neighbor think? It sounds like he is the one with the leak.
We had that same thing happen to us. Our backyard would always remain slightly wet, and especially if it rained, the water never seemed to go away. we found out that there had been a stream running thru our yard, and they tried to re-route it in order to put up fences and develope the yard. (which by the stream never really goes away.) I doubt that you can really get anything from tapping into it--at least enough to make the work worth it. good luck.
It probably has a patch of clay or cement under the soil, Use a bottle of soap, not detergent and see it that will open up the soil, so it can drain, or perhaps take a spade and dig down and add pumice or perlite to the soil, so to make it drain faster, or stop in at your local nursery and ask how to do it. Or place a call to the Agrig. dept. and ask them. You local high school should should have Agrig. teacher, or the local college will. There is a Master Gardner Program they should be able to answer this question and it would be a good challenge for them to do so. Thumbs up, get it done, I sure wish we had a results area for you to respond. True you may have water coming up from beneath the soil. I am curious as to what is doing this and would really like to know.
Your house may have been built on a natural pond. Check with your building dept and find out what was there before the house was built. Some one may have goofed and allowed it to be built on swamp land. We get sink holes here in the middle of streets, and don't know about it until a car falls in. You may have a cave under your property. There had to be permits before they could build houses. Hoyakins
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